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Nancy Wake

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The Resume

    (August 30, 1912-August 7, 2011)
    Raised in Sydney, Australia
    Journalist turned freedom fighter for the Allied Resistance in France during World War II
    Nicknamed 'The White Mouse' by the Gestapo for skill at eluding capture
    Awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom, the George Medal, the Médaille de la Résistance and 3 Croix de Guerre medals (Allies' most decorated WW II servicewoman)
    Subject of the Peter Fitzsimons book 'Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine' (2001)

Why she might be annoying:

    She ran away from home at sixteen.
    As a young reporter she traveled Europe and led 'a glamorous life of parties.'
    She married a wealthy French businessman.
    When the Nazis put a 5 million franc price on her head she fled France without her husband.
    Parachuting back into France during a raid she got caught in a tree.
    When her agent stated, 'I hope all trees could bear such beautiful fruit' she told him not to give her 'that French shit.'
    The Australian government never gave her a medal because she was born in New Zealand.

Why she might not be annoying:

    When she was a girl her father left the family and sold their house, leaving her mother bitter.
    In Vienna she witnessed Hitler's brownshirts whipping Jews, an image causing her to take action.
    She killed one German sentry with her bare hands.
    Her proudest act was riding a bicycle more than 100 miles through several German checkpoints to replace destroyed radio codes.
    She found out after the war that the Gestapo tortured and killed her husband when he refused to tell of her activities.
    One of her comrades summed her up, 'She is the most feminine woman I know, until the fighting starts. Then, she is like five men.'

Credit: Scar Tactics


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 16 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 11 Votes: 27.27% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 241 Votes: 52.70% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 111 Votes: 55.86% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 14008 Votes: 24.14% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 138 Votes: 55.07% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 856 Votes: 37.38% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 2137 Votes: 41.83% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 44 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 99 Votes: 62.63% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 218 Votes: 44.50% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 166 Votes: 39.76% Annoying