Ambassadors to Honor Female WWII Spy
In 1942, the Gestapo circulated posters offering a reward for
the capture of"the woman with a limp. She is the most dangerous
of all Allied spies and we must find and destroy her."
The dangerous woman was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore native working in
France for British intelligence, and the limp was the result of an
artificial leg. Her left leg had been amputated below the knee about a
decade earlier after she stumbled and blasted her foot with a shotgun
while hunting in Turkey.
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The injury derailed Hall's dream of becoming a Foreign Service officer because the State Department wouldn't hire amputees, but it didn't prevent her from becoming one of the most celebrated spies of World War II.
On Tuesday, the French and British ambassadors plan to honor Hall, who died in 1982 at age 78, at a ceremony at the home of French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte in Washington.