Bidspirit auction | WW2 Dday RARE Nancy Wake

WW2 Dday RARE Nancy Wake signed Internetstamps FDC Resistance SOE. ONLY 75 WERE SIGNED. Nancy Wake the most decorated female of WWII who worked for the resistance and SOE and was known as The White Mouse by the Gestapo who put a reward of millions of Francs up for her capture. Amazing cover highly collectable. Isle of Man stamps and special postmark, Doubled with French stamp and Caen postmark. Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM (30 August 1912 - 7 August 2011), also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a New Zealand-born 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. Wake joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE) under the code name ”Hélène”. On 29-30 April 1944 as a member of a three-person SOE team code-named ”Freelance”, Wake parachuted into the Allier department of occupied France to liaise between the SOE and several Maquis groups in the Auvergne region, which were loosely overseen by Émile Coulaudon (code name ”Gaspard”). [3] She participated in a battle between the Maquis and a large German force in June 1944. In the aftermath of the battle, a defeat for the Maquis, she claimed to have bicycled 500 kilometres to send a situation report to SOE in London.