Nancy Wake: Guerrilla Fighter
Nancy wake was born in New Zealand and was raised in Australia. She was a journalist in New York and London and then married a wealthy Frenchman and was living in Marseille when Germany invaded. Nancy then immediately went to work for the French resistance. She did anything from hiding and smuggling men out of France to ferrying contraband supplies and falsified documents. She was once captured and interrogated for days, but she gave no secrets away. Wake managed to escape to Britain in 1943 and then joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British intelligence agency. After she was trained out to use weapons and parachutes, she was airdropped back into France as an official spy and warrior. She had no trouble shooting Nazis of blowing up buildings with the French guerilla warriors. After the war, Nancy Wake was awarded the George Medal from the British, the Medal of Freedom from the U.S. among other medals. She published her biography, "The White Mouse", in 1938 and died August 7th, 2011 at the age of 98.
Elsie Ott: Flight Nurse
Elsie Ott was the first women to receive the U.S. Air Medal. Elsie was already a trained nurse when he joined the Army Air Corps in 1941 where she was then sent to Karachi, India. Ott was assigned to the first evacuation flight with only a 24 hour notice; she had also never flown before. The plane that she flew in had no medical equipment beyond first aid supplies and there was only one army medic to help her care for the passengers. The place left India on January 17, 1943 and made several stops, picking up more patients on its six day flight to Washington, D.C. The previous route for such a mission was by ship and would of taken about three months. She wrote a report about her light and recommended important changes for further evacuation flights. She took excellent care of her patients and no deaths occurred during the flight. She then returned to India a few months later with a new unit, the 803rd Military Air Evacuation Squad. She was then promoted to captain in 1946.