Fun Facts
- Nancy Wake was born in Wellington, New Zealand on August 30th, 1912.
- She ran away from home when she was 16 to become a nurse.
- In 1939 Nancy married a French man Henri Fiocca.
- She was at the top of the Gestapo's most wanted list.
- Nancy once said, "Freedom is the only thing worth living for. While I was doing that work, I used to think it didn't matter if I died, because without freedom there was no point in living."
- We believe that she is both well-known and kind of lost and forgotten because there isn't popular films about her but maybe the countries that she worked with know a lot more about her than countries such as America and Canada.
- Nancy is important in history because of her bravery and how many lives she saved.