https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5 made with an interest en-us 2022-04-08 16:02:28 UTC 2022-04-19 18:54:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f339.png Cryin_Rose33 https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2136588081 2022-04-08 16:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2136588081 Cryin_Rose33 https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2136589005 She organized spy networks, ran safehouses, and delivered important information. William Donovan, the OSS chief, gave Hall the Distinguished Service Cross — making her the only civilian woman to receive one in World War II.]]> 2022-04-08 16:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2136589005 Cryin_Rose33 https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2144190917 Informational Website]]> 2022-04-14 17:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2144190917 Cryin_Rose33 https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2144219715 2022-04-14 18:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2144219715 Cryin_Rose33 https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2144222421 2022-04-14 18:25:05 UTC https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2144222421 Cryin_Rose33 https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2144234528 Virginia Hall had to flee France when Germany was invading. on her way out see ran into a spy that put her in contact to British intelligence. She had lost a leg and named her prosthetic "Cuthbert".]]> 2022-04-14 18:37:10 UTC https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2144234528 Cryin_Rose33 https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2144234670 With limited training and only one leg she was one of the first spies sent to France. She was a natural spy, and always one step ahead of the Gestapo. The Gestapo called Hall "The Limping Lady". At it's peak her network consisted of 1,500 people.]]> 2022-04-14 18:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2144234670 Cryin_Rose33 https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2144246180 "I do think that she became America's greatest spy of World War II," Gralley said of Hall.

"Many of my friends were killed for talking too much."- Virginia Hall

"Virginia Hall, to a certain extent, was invisible," said Gralley. "She was able to play on the chauvinism of the Gestapo at the time. None of the Germans early in the war necessarily thought that a woman was capable of being a spy."

"I could only imagine the kind of will and the kind of perseverance that Virginia Hall had by making this trek," Gralley says, "not on a beautiful day, but in the dead of winter and with a prosthetic leg she had to drag behind her."]]> 2022-04-14 18:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2144246180 Cryin_Rose33 https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2149099623 Around the end of 1942 the Nazis were closing in on hall. She narrowly escaped to Spain, embarking on a distressing journey that consisted walking three days for 50 miles in heavy snow over the forbidding Pyrenees Mountains.]]> 2022-04-19 18:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2149099623 Cryin_Rose33 https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2149113661 After the war Hall joined the newly formed CIA. She worked there for 15 years mostly at headquarters. She retired in 1966 and never spoke publicly. Her story was still confined by the intelligence community even after death in 1982 in Maryland.]]> 2022-04-19 18:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/Cryin_Rose33/kot8qkeoqkbecza5/wish/2149113661