After training with weapons and parachutes, she was airdropped back into France-as an official spy and warrior.

With the Nazis in hot pursuit, Wake managed to escape to Britain in 1943, and joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British intelligence agency. She was once captured and interrogated for days, but gave no secrets away. Wake immediately went to work for the French resistance, hiding and smuggling men out of France and ferrying contraband supplies and falsified documents. Nancy Wake: Guerrilla Fighterīorn in New Zealand and raised in Australia, Nancy Wake was a journalist in New York and London and then married a wealthy Frenchman and was living in Marseille when Germany invaded. They are from many countries, and they all did their part and more for the Allied effort. Here are the stories of eleven of these brave women.

Over 100 million military personnel participated in the war, including many women.

There are more stories of heroism out of World War II than can ever fit in a school textbook, but hundreds of those stories are written down somewhere for those who want to find them.

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