Studio portrait of Nancy Wake in uniform, showing her parachute badge. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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   Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

   Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she is never captured. She died in 2011.

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