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The American Who Led 17 Junglemen to Liberate Burma

Combat (Southern Zone Network)

Virginia Hall was an American with a wooden leg ("Cuthbert") who spoke fluent French and German. Rejected from the State Department for her disability and gender, she joined British SOE in 1941. In Occupied France, she organized drop zones, escape ro...

1,500 lives saved Organized over 1,000 resistance fighters