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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.
- France, United Kingdom
- 7 August 2011 (aged 98), London, England
- Second World War
- Hélène (SOE), Andrée (French Resistance/SOE Identity), White Mouse (Gestapo in France)
Feb 7, 2018 · Nancy Wake was an Australian expatriate who became a fearless and influential leader of the French Resistance during World War II. She evaded capture, killed a German guard with her bare hands, and saved thousands of lives with her courage 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...
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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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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
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.
Nancy Wake (1912–2011), aka 'Madame Andrée' and codenamed 'White Mouse' and 'Witch', was the most decorated servicewoman of World War II. She is famed for her courageous undercover activities in occupied France from 1940 to 1943, first as a courier of a French Resistance network and later with an escape network until it was betrayed.
