were stopped at a German checkpoint and a gun battle broke out. As the pair fled, she twisted her ankle but held off the Germans, killing a corporal, until she ran out of ammunition – giving her companion time to escape.She was tortured and taken to Ravensbrück where was she executed, with other female SOE agents, aged just 23.New Zealand-born ex-nurse Nancy Wake was living in France when war broke out but, after its surrender, stayed to help run an escape line for stranded Allied troops.Dubbed the The White Mouse, the frustrated Germans put a five-million-franc price on her head.On one occasion she coolly dressed in stockings, heels and a fur coat while being pursued, jumping from a train into a vineyard to avoid capture at Nazi.
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