Nowadays people look at the likes Beyoncé, Lady GaGa, Rihanna,etc and think Girl power.
Now, Nancy Wake that was Girl power , the real deal and thank god she was on our side.
“I don’t see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.”
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake AC, GM (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011) served as a British Special Operations Executive agent during the later part of World War II. She became a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance and was one of the Allies’ most decorated servicewomen of the war.Nancy Wake – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After the fall of France in 1940, she became a courier for the French Resistance and later joined the escape network of Captain Ian Garrow. By 1943, Wake was the Gestapo’s most wanted person, with a 5 million-franc price on her head.
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