Virginia Hall had a gift for languages, a sense of adventure, & wanted to join the Foreign Service.
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1941: Virginia-1st female SOE operative in France-used forged documents & false names as she worked undercover in Lyon for 14 months.
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Virginia’s mission, Geologist-5, provided SOE w info on Vichy France: political & econ conditions, & amount of popular will to resist
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Beyond her charter, Virginia proved adept at recruiting spies.
She created a network of 90 agents, code-named Heckler.
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Virginia became an expert in:
organizing resistance
providing weapons & supplies
helping downed airmen
& her specialty… jailbreaks
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Lyon’s Gestapo chief, Klaus Barbie, who never knew Virginia’s true name, caught wind of her activities & put a bounty on her.
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NOV 1942: German troops flooded France after defeat in N Africa
Virginia & 3 others escaped by hiking across Pyrenees Mtns into Spain
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#FridayReads:
A Climb to Freedom: A Personal Journey in the Footsteps of Virginia Hall
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Over complex terrain, Virginia hiked as much as 50 miles through snow-covered mountains over 7,500’ in altitude w her prosthetic leg.
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Virginia was determined to return to France.
SOE refused, as she was too well-known to the Gestapo.
She was sent back to London.
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1944: Virginia joined #OSS.
Unable to parachute into France because of her artificial leg, she arrived by British torpedo boat.
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To avoid detection, Virginia dyed her hair grey & disguised herself as a milkmaid with a shuffling gait to hide her limp.
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By staying on the move, camping in barns & attics, Virginia was able to avoid Germans who were desperately tracking her radio signals
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Virginia organized 1000s of French Maquis, blew up bridges, & conducted other sabotage operations to support Allies’ D-Day invasion.
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For her courage & ingenuity, Virginia was the only civilian woman during #WWII to be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
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At CIA, Virginia used her covert action expertise in range of activities & in support of resistance groups in Iron Curtain countries.
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Virginia was one of a few relatively senior women in ops until her mandatory retirement in 1966 at age 60.
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Churchill also collected Ginger cats. Loved them. When one cat died he got another one immediately.
Yes he did that in Scotland an England open up communication! Roosevelt an Canada join in on it! Add camp in Canada an one was in Scotland!
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