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    1. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
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      Virginia’s hollow wooden leg & aluminum foot were attached by leather belts wrapped around her waist. It weighed more than 7 pounds. #OSS75

      7 replies 33 retweets 114 likes
    2. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
      Replying to @CIA

      Virginia couldn’t take Foreign Service exam due to strict rules against employees w disabilities joining diplomatic corps at the time #OSS75pic.twitter.com/wZHKAiN1uU

      3 replies 47 retweets 117 likes
    3. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
      Replying to @CIA

      Furious, Virginia left @StateDept & went to Paris to drive ambulances. 1940: She moved to London & became a code clerk w US War Dept. #OSS75pic.twitter.com/2Er1nTc8tH

      7 replies 53 retweets 162 likes
    4. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
      Replying to @CIA @StateDept

      Virginia’s knowledge of the French countryside, fluency in French & German, & moxie caught the attention of the British. #OSS75

      7 replies 35 retweets 133 likes
    5. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
      Replying to @CIA

      PM Winston Churchill had just established Special Operations Executive (SOE) to support underground resistance & conduct sabotage ops #OSS75

      8 replies 48 retweets 126 likes
    6. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
      Replying to @CIA

      1941: Virginia-1st female SOE operative in France-used forged documents & false names as she worked undercover in Lyon for 14 months. #OSS75pic.twitter.com/rgceLnH4IX

      4 replies 51 retweets 148 likes
    7. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
      Replying to @CIA

      Virginia’s mission, Geologist-5, provided SOE w info on Vichy France: political & econ conditions, & amount of popular will to resist #OSS75

      4 replies 36 retweets 115 likes
    8. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
      Replying to @CIA

      Beyond her charter, Virginia proved adept at recruiting spies. She created a network of 90 agents, code-named Heckler. #OSS75pic.twitter.com/bzUd4rRhNg

      4 replies 55 retweets 166 likes
    9. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
      Replying to @CIA

      Virginia became an expert in: organizing resistance providing weapons & supplies helping downed airmen & her specialty… jailbreaks #OSS75

      3 replies 51 retweets 159 likes
    10. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
      Replying to @CIA

      Lyon’s Gestapo chief, Klaus Barbie, who never knew Virginia’s true name, caught wind of her activities & put a bounty on her. #OSS75pic.twitter.com/pduf7kDsbt

      8 replies 47 retweets 115 likes
      CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017

      NOV 1942: German troops flooded France after defeat in N Africa Virginia & 3 others escaped by hiking across Pyrenees Mtns into Spain #OSS75pic.twitter.com/1ZcJGdQtk0

      11:55 AM - 30 Jun 2017
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        2. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @CIA

          #FridayReads: A Climb to Freedom: A Personal Journey in the Footsteps of Virginia Hall http://bit.ly/2s3tEHs  #OSS75pic.twitter.com/bb8UDcENAL

          1 reply 46 retweets 135 likes
        3. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @CIA

          Over complex terrain, Virginia hiked as much as 50 miles through snow-covered mountains over 7,500’ in altitude w her prosthetic leg. #OSS75

          6 replies 34 retweets 132 likes
        4. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
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          pic.twitter.com/3eYBJF9Bkf

          3 replies 63 retweets 174 likes
        5. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @CIA

          Virginia was determined to return to France. SOE refused, as she was too well-known to the Gestapo. She was sent back to London. #OSS75

          2 replies 33 retweets 99 likes
        6. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @CIA

          1944: Virginia joined #OSS. Unable to parachute into France because of her artificial leg, she arrived by British torpedo boat. #OSS75pic.twitter.com/RzrRJ1LDxf

          4 replies 43 retweets 128 likes
        7. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @CIA

          To avoid detection, Virginia dyed her hair grey & disguised herself as a milkmaid with a shuffling gait to hide her limp. #OSS75pic.twitter.com/NjCGTMuznH

          10 replies 37 retweets 159 likes
        8. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @CIA

          By staying on the move, camping in barns & attics, Virginia was able to avoid Germans who were desperately tracking her radio signals #OSS75pic.twitter.com/q7nPE85dQ4

          21 replies 129 retweets 401 likes
        9. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @CIA

          Virginia organized 1000s of French Maquis, blew up bridges, & conducted other sabotage operations to support Allies’ D-Day invasion. #OSS75pic.twitter.com/V4fqYHCoAG

          5 replies 61 retweets 172 likes
        10. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @CIA

          For her courage & ingenuity, Virginia was the only civilian woman during #WWII to be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. #OSS75pic.twitter.com/xcS0CLIitQ

          11 replies 75 retweets 244 likes
        11. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @CIA

          At CIA, Virginia used her covert action expertise in range of activities & in support of resistance groups in Iron Curtain countries. #OSS75

          3 replies 47 retweets 168 likes
        12. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @CIA

          Virginia was one of a few relatively senior women in ops until her mandatory retirement in 1966 at age 60. http://1.usa.gov/1L2wUHw  #OSS75pic.twitter.com/MAE2TRTIhL

          8 replies 65 retweets 211 likes
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        1. hlirwin‏ @hlirwin 30 Jun 2017
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          Would have loved to have met her. What a role model.

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        1. Darby's rangers USA!‏ @Matrix19430 13 Jul 2017
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          It a part of history of great people who put there self on the line an did amazing things!

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        1. Darby's rangers USA!‏ @Matrix19430 13 Jul 2017
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          Dad was in North Africa, Italy, Germany!

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