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[lederhosen]

Nancy Wake finally got a medal from the Australian government for her work with the French Resistance and SOE in WWII.

http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/wake.html

On a mini-series about her role in the Resistance:

"The mini-series was well-acted but in parts it was extremely stupid. At one stage they had me cooking eggs and bacon to feed the men. For goodness sake did the Allies parachute me into France to fry eggs and bacon for the men? There wasn’t an egg to be had for love nor money, and even if there had been why would I be frying it when I had men to do that sort of thing?"

From another site: "As for how she would like to be remembered, she says she hopes to go down in history as the woman who turned down 7,000 sex-starved Frenchmen..."

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[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

Nancy Wake’s comrade Henri Tardivat perhaps best characterised the guerrilla chieftain: "She is the most feminine woman I know, until the fighting starts. Then, she is like five men."

Huzzah. :-)