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    Post Books: How a Spy Known as the ‘Limping Lady’ Helped the Allies Win WWII

    How a Spy Known as the ‘Limping Lady’ Helped the Allies Win WWII - An electrifying biography explores the remarkable feats of Virginia Hall, a disabled secret agent determined to play her part in the fight against the Nazis..

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    Virginia was the only civilian woman in the Second World War to be
    awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, for extraordinary heroism
    against the enemy. She received the medal in Washington, D.C.,
    from “Wild Bill” Donovan in a low-key ceremony on September 27, 1945.




    In early September 1941, a young American woman arrived in Vichy France on a clandestine and perilous mission. She had been tasked with organizing local resistance networks against France’s German occupiers and communicating intelligence to the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the fledgling British secret service that had recruited her. In reality, however, Virginia Hall’s supervisors were not particularly hopeful about her prospects; they didn’t expect her to survive more than a few days in a region teeming with Gestapo agents.

    At the time, Hall admittedly made for an unlikely spy. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s war cabinet had forbidden women from the frontlines, and some within the SOE questioned whether Hall was fit to be operating in the midst of a resistance operation. It wasn’t just her gender that was an issue: Hall was also an amputee, having lost her left leg several years earlier following a hunting accident. She relied on a prosthetic, which she dubbed “Cuthbert,” and walked with a limp, making her dangerously conspicuous. Indeed, Hall
    quickly became known as the “Limping Lady” of Lyon, the French city where she set up base.

    This is her story: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/h...=pocket-newtab

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    You post some very interesting stories.

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    At the beginning of the book, Marcus Luttrell describes his childhood and his training to prepare for the Navy SEALs with Billy Shelton. After joining the U.S. Navy and completing SEAL training, Luttrell describes his posting in Afghanistan, in the Hindu Kush mountains of the Kunar province. With him are the rest of SDVT-1 (SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 1), except Shane E. Patton, for whom Danny Dietz was substituted. Their mission, Operation Red Wings, was to capture or kill a leading Taliban member thought to be allied with Osama bin Laden.
    At an early stage of their mission, the team encountered three goatherds, including a boy. They debated whether they should kill the goatherds to avoid being exposed to the enemy, but after a vote, team leader Michael Murphy decided to uphold the rules of engagement and let the goatherds go. About an hour later, the four SEALs were surrounded by a number of Taliban warriors.

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    Mike did what he always did and protected the child goatherder. In school he was known a "Mike the Protector " . Autistic , slow ,or if you were simply someone the "Jocks " in school would harass - Mike watched out for them . In the hills of Afghanistan it was a honorable mistake that cost them dearly .

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