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She could kill Nazis with her bare hands: Nancy 'the White Mouse' Wake has died
news,com.au ^
| 8th August 2011
Posted on 08/07/2011 6:19:44 PM PDT by naturalman1975
AFTER witnessing Hitler's early atrocities, Nancy Wake vowed to fight him any way she could.
She fought so well, she ended up on top of the Gestapo's wanted list, saved thousands of Allied lives, played a crucial role in D-Day and received France's highest military honour.
"Nobody can beat you Nancy, nobody," Sonya d'Artois told her old Resistance comrade when Wake was awarded Australia's highest civilian honour in 2004, six decades after the French recognised her.
She was resourceful, cunning, feisty, brave and tough, once killing a German sentry with her bare hands.
"She is the most feminine woman I know until the fighting starts. Then, she is like five men," one French colleague said of her. But, at the age of 98, Wake was finally beaten.
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Wake was awarded France's highest honour, the Legion d'Honneur, as well as three Croix de Guerre and a French Resistance Medal, Britain's George Medal and the US Medal of Freedom.
When she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia at a ceremony in London in March, 2004, d'Artois flew in from Canada especially for the event and was joined by other former Special Operations Executive (SOE) spies and servicemen, including Air Chief Marshall Sir Lewis Hodges who was saved by Wake after being shot down over occupied France.
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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: frenchresistance; whitemouse; ww2; wwii
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To: naturalman1975
Read it all.
We owe that to her. And so much more.
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:20:50 PM PDT
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: naturalman1975
Wonder Woman . . . come to life.
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:26:16 PM PDT
by
YHAOS
(you betcha!)
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:28:53 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
To: naturalman1975
A wonderful article. I never knew about her. May she rest in peace.
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:31:22 PM PDT
by
sneakers
(EAT YOUR PEAS!)
To: naturalman1975
Wonderful article. May she rest in peace. She deserves it!
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:33:39 PM PDT
by
Twotone
(Marte Et Clypeo)
To: Twotone
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:34:38 PM PDT
by
QBFimi
(When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Beaten only by time.A fate that none of us will escape, sadly.
The article states that she drank six gins a day until a heart attack forced her to "cut back" - she was already 90 at the time! Now that's my kind of woman! This was a great article and yet another bookmark for my WW2 folder.
To: naturalman1975
Quite a woman! Her first husband, too, was a very brave man, to suffer torture and death rather than betray her.
To: naturalman1975
Rest in peace Nancy Wake. Hero.
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:39:18 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: susannah59
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:39:44 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:39:56 PM PDT
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:40:40 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:41:05 PM PDT
by
Freedom_Is_Not_Free
(SP12: They called Reagan "unelectable", too.)
To: Lurker
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:41:09 PM PDT
by
MissyMa
To: naturalman1975
Nancy Wake made the top of the Gestapo's wanted list
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:43:25 PM PDT
by
Rudder
(The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
To: naturalman1975
Now here’s a lady to make a movie about!
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:43:48 PM PDT
by
Keith Brown
(Among the other evils being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised Machiavelli.)
To: naturalman1975
An amazing woman. Thank you for posting this.
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:44:39 PM PDT
by
Stonewall Jackson
(Democrats: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.")
To: naturalman1975
God bless her an the ones we will never read about that fought such evil at such a great cost....
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posted on
08/07/2011 6:45:58 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: Keith Brown
There's an Australian film from the 1980s called Nancy Wake and Charlotte Grey, though fiction, was partly based on her (Grey was a composite character based on a number of female SOE agents).
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08/07/2011 6:52:15 PM PDT
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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