One of the most highly decorated Allied secret agents of World War II, Nancy Wake, has died in London aged 98.
- After the fall of France in 1940, Mrs Wake became a French Resistance courier and later a saboteur and spy - setting up escape routes and sabotaging German installations, saving hundreds of Allied lives.
- She worked for British Special Operations and was parachuted into France in April 1944 before D-Day to deliver weapons to French Resistance fighters.
- she was top of the Gestapo's most wanted list.
- She was Australia's most decorated servicewoman, and one of the most decorated Allied servicewomen of World War II.
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