[Ready4Freddy]

Interesting!

Gee, grandma, what did you do in the war?

"Well, I became the only civilian woman to win the Distinguished Service Medal for service in World War II."

Sure, grandma, but what did you really do?

In this photo copied from an exhibition at Arlington National Cemetery showing Virginia Hall of Baltimore, left, being awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by Maj. Gen. William J. Donovan, founder of the OSS, Nov. 27, 1945. In 1942, the Gestapo circulated posters offering a reward for the capture of 'the woman with a limp. She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies and we must find and destroy her.' (AP Photo/The Baltimore Sun)

[Ready4Freddy]

She probably drank some vermooth while in France, huh? ;>)

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Would make a great movie.

[Last Dakotan]

Her left leg had been amputated below the knee about a decade earlier after she stumbled and blasted her foot with a shotgun while hunting in Turkey.

Reminder to leave safety engaged.

[Iris7]

Those early Special Operations Executive ladies and gentlemen inserted into France in 1940-42 were most extraordinarily tough and brave. Even very "ordinary" SOE people were anything but.

[the Real fifi]

She was remarkable. If you read the Telegraph's obits you will mourn the passing of the most remarkable heroes of WWII--you cannot imagine their bravery, guts and brains.

[tarheelswamprat]

"I think it was ironic that the State Department turned her down because she was an amputee, and here she went on and did all this other stuff," said Catling

Typical for the State Department. They've continued that tradition of blind incompetence into the present day.

[USMCVet]

encroyable!

[OKSooner]

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