Nancy Wake was a New Zealander brought up in Australia. She became a nurse, a journalist who interviewed Adolf Hitler, a wealthy French socialite, a British agent and a French resistance leader. She led 7,000 guerrilla fighters in battles against the Nazis in the northern Auvergne, just before the D-Day landings in 1944. On one occasion, she strangled an SS sentry with her bare hands. On another, she cycled 500 miles to replace lost codes. In June 1944, she led her fighters in an attack on the Gestapo headquarters at Montlucon in central France…

 

“It was well-acted but in parts it was extremely stupid,” she said. “At one stage they had me cooking eggs and bacon to feed the men. For goodness’ sake, did the Allies parachute me into France to fry eggs and bacon for the men? There wasn’t an egg to be had for love nor money. Even if there had been why would I be frying it? I had men to do that sort of thing.”…

 

Nancy recalled later in life that her parachute had snagged in a tree. The French resistance fighter who freed her said he wished all trees bore “such beautiful fruit”. Nancy retorted: “Don’t give me that French shit.”

 

From The Independent’s obituary in August 2011.

Nancy Wake was a Triple Virgo – Sun-Mars-Venus – with the Mars square Pluto in Gemini. She had Aries Moon and North Node  – classic driven path-blazing individualist brave astro. Claus Von Stauffenberg was another Mars-Pluto type from the same era. He was executed for his attempt to take out Hitler. Oskar Schindler had Mars-Venus-Pluto in Gemini. Violette Szabo, a British spy operating in France who was captured and executed at Ravensbruck was Mars-Pluto-Sun in Kataka.

Back to Nancy; she also had Mercury Retro in Leo – “don’t give me that French shit.” Lol.

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