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Nancy Wake
August 30, 1912 – August 7, 2011
Courier and SOE operative (1912–2011)
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Nancy Grace Augusta Wake,, also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a New Zealand-born Australian nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and briefly pursued a postwar career as an intelligence officer in the Air Ministry.
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- Birthday · August 30
- Anniversary · August 7
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