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// Your Biography Assessment // ==== I am doing my Biography on Nancy Wake, her code-name is 'The White Mouse', her full name is Nancy Grace Augusta Wake. And what I find couragous about Nancy was that she rode a bicycle for more than 100 miles through several of the German checkpoints. ==== ==== Nancy Wake is the youngest of six, she was born on August 30, 1912 in Wellington, New Zealand, she was the Allies' most decorated servicewoman of World War II who fought alongside the Maquis group of the French Resistance. When she was 2 in 1914, her family moved to Austraila. At the age of 16 she ran away from home and went to London then became a nurse. ====

In 1935 she met French industrialist Henri Fiocca, she married him in 1939. // "He was a lovely bloke, the love of my life." //
==== Nancy was living in Marseille, France when Germany invaded.She became a courier for the French Resistance, and later joined the escape network of Captain Ian Garrow. That was when the Gestapo called her "White Mouse". ==== When the network was betrayed in December 1943, she had to escape from Marseilles and leave her husband behind, she was later arrested in Toulouse but released four days later. Her fifth or sixth attempt to cross the Pyrenees to Spain succeeded.Within a year of Nancy leaving, the Gestapo had killed Henri in their bid to find his wife. On a occasion, in order to replace codes her wireless operator had been forced to destroy in a German raid, Nancy Wake rode a bicycle for more than 100 miles through several German checkpoints. "In those days it was safer, or a woman had more chance than a man, to get around because the Germans were taking men out just like that."

Nancy ledmany attacks on Germany installations orior to the Normandy Invasion.
Nancy received many medals for her actions after the war, George Medal 2nd Highest Medal Awarded to Civilians, The U.S: Medal of Freedom: Equal to the Medal of Honor, and the Remarkable Acts of Faith. After the war Nancy worked at the British Air Ministry. = =

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Nancy married John Forward in 1957 an returned to austraila. ======

John Died in 1997, and as of nancy, she is living in London.
=As a war hero, Nancy Wake was a pioneering feminist that spoke loudly with words and backed them up with actions. She once said, =

="I hate wars and violence, but if they come I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas."  =

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