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Home Front: Culture Wars
Ambassadors to honor female WWII spy
2006-12-11
Again, there's no suitable category, We need History and Science, IMO.
A True American Hero. Well done, Virginia - and Thank You for your bravery. R.I.P.
BALTIMORE - In 1942, the Gestapo circulated posters offering a reward for the capture of "the woman with a limp. She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies and we must find and destroy her."

The dangerous woman was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore native working in France for British intelligence, and the limp was the result of an artificial leg. Her left leg had been amputated below the knee about a decade earlier after she stumbled and blasted her foot with a shotgun while hunting in Turkey.
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