Women Involved in WWII
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Virginia HallVirginia Hall was born on April 6th, 1906 in Baltimore, Maryland. She went to school at Radcliffe College where she learned multiple languages. Hall could speak multiple languages such as French, Italian, and German. Having the ability to speak these languages would help her later on in her life. In 1931 Hall worked in the American Embassy in Poland. In the next couple years she had a severe accident that resulted in her losing her leg. When World War II started, she was living in France and she joined the French Ambulance Service Unit. When Germany invaded France she fled to Great Britain. The Office of Strategic Services in Britain recruited her in 1941. She then returned to France posing as a reporter and helped the French Resistance. She was forced to leave but she again returned in 1944 to help the Resistance once again. After the war she joined the CIA and then died in 1982.
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