Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive.
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Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.
Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.
Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
@CarveHerName I’m happy to see somebody is paying attention to the women who literally fought over there. Not to mention the women all over the world who went to work making munitions, etc. while their husbands or boyfriends were on the front lines.
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Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.
Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
@CarveHerName
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Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.
Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
Let us never forget the heroic deeds of people that actively resisted the cruel Nazi occupation…
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