Over the next 15 months , she " be- came an expert at support op- erations – organizing resistance movements ; supplying agents with money , weapons , and sup- plies ; helping downed airmen to escape ; offering safe houses and medical assistance to wound- ed agents and pilots ." She fled France in November 1942 to avoid capture by the Germans
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The Germans gave her the nick- name Artemis , and the Gestapo
reportedly considered her " the most dangerous of all Allied spies ." Having lost part of her leg in a hunting accident , Hall used a prosthesis she named " Cuth- bert ." She was also known as " The Limping Lady " by the Germans and as " Marie of Lyon " by many of the SOE agents , she assisted .
She returned to France as a wire- less operator for the OSS in March 1944 . Working in territory still oc- cupied by the German army and https :// www . youtube . com / watch ? v = HtkQHUiTT44
( See the trailer for A Call to Spy , a WWII Espionage Thriller Movie based on Virginia Hall . Cour- tesy of FilmIsNow Movie Trailers and YouTube .)
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