# Nancy Wake (The White Mouse) Passes Away

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 8, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nancy-wake-the-white-mouse-passes-away/591884 "2011-08-08T00:35:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nancy-wake-the-white-mouse-passes-away/591884/1 "2011-08-08T00:35:29Z")

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She is probably not terribly well known, but she made a name of sorts with the French Resistance during the later stages of WW 2.

She has passed on aged 98.

[Story.](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-08/world-war-ii-heroine-nancy-wake-dies/2828854)

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**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nancy-wake-the-white-mouse-passes-away/591884/2 "2011-08-08T05:36:29Z")

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Amazing. I wonder what she did after the war.

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**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nancy-wake-the-white-mouse-passes-away/591884/3 "2011-08-08T05:54:39Z")

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I’d never heard of her. Now I want to read her book!

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nancy-wake-the-white-mouse-passes-away/591884/4 "2011-08-08T07:07:08Z")

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She sounds incredible.

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**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nancy-wake-the-white-mouse-passes-away/591884/5 "2011-08-08T07:53:33Z")

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I’d heard of her, and her amazing story. Radio NZ played a little of an interview with her when announcing her death, apparently her strategy at check points was to ‘flutter her eyelashes at the officer and ask if he wanted to search me.’

I think there’s a film in production based on her story. Sebastian Falks’ _Charlotte Grey_ had some parts lifted from Wake’s story.

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**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nancy-wake-the-white-mouse-passes-away/591884/6 "2011-08-08T12:45:42Z")

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Thanks for posting this. I hadn’t heard of her before but now I want to hear more.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nancy-wake-the-white-mouse-passes-away/591884/7 "2011-08-10T04:13:13Z")

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I just found out about this and was checking to see if anyone had started a thread. An amazing lady. RIP.