Nancy Wake GM, Officer of the Legion of Honour (France), Medal of Resistance (France), Medal of Freedom (USA). SOE agent aka Helena Andree and called the White Mouse by the Gestapo in France who failed to catch her)
Alan Malcher
Based on my understanding of Nancy Wake this is the best documentary I have seen on her life with the Pat O’Leary escape line, her escape from France and her service with SOE.
Some of her wartime work in France is not covered and there are the following technical inaccuracies during the re-enactment:
During her parachute infiltration she is seen wearing the wrong type of helmet and parachute
The type of wireless shown is not correct
The Gestapo agent Nancy Wake said she would shoot if the Marquis refused to do so was a woman not a male as shown in the film and it was not as straight forward as depicted here.
Film documentary telling the story of the Australian who, after engineering the escape of hundreds of allied servicemen from occupied France during the Second World War – and following her own escape and subsequent training as an S.O.E. agent returned to France by parachute to support the resistance. (Six-part documentary)
The following short documentary by ABC Australia provides an overview of the life of Nancy Wake who was dropped by parachute into wartime France to organise resistance and subversive warfare.
Alan Malcher 