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Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011), also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and briefly pursued a post-war career as an intelligence officer in the Air Ministry.
Feb 7, 2018 · Nancy Wake was an Australian expatriate who became a fearless fighter against the Nazis during World War II. She was a courier, a saboteur, a leader, and a spy who evaded capture and saved thousands of lives with her bravery and skills.
Nancy Wake, a French Resistance hero of World War II, in 2004. Adam Butler/Associated Press. She once described herself — as a young woman — as someone who loved nothing more than “a good...
Aug 7, 2011 · Wake worked manning the dangerous escape routes through France helping to save the lives of many Allied troops and Jewish refugees. She was given her code name 'The White Mouse' by the Gestapo. Other : 1943: Wake became one of the Gestapo's most wanted resistance leaders and Wake was forced to flee France. Other : 1943-06
Nov 1, 2019 · 1.7K. 151K views 4 years ago. This is the incredible true story of Nancy Wake, the daring allied spy who became the Gestapo’s most wanted woman in WWII. Codenamed ‘The White Mouse’ for her...
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Department of Veterans' Affairs 2020. Spies played a vital role in the Second World War. In France, a spy network known as La Résistance collected data for the Allies and disrupted the occupying German forces. This tells the story of Nancy Wake, a New Zealand-born Australian woman who was in France when the war began.
Learn about Nancy Wake, the most wanted woman in France during the Second World War and a highly decorated SOE agent. Explore her early life, war service, awards and later life through documents and stories from The National Archives.
