S0E621: The Top WW2 Spy Was a Disabled Woman

Virginia Hall was one of the most extraordinary spies of World War II. An American operative for Britain’s Special Operations Executive and later the OSS, Hall built resistance networks in occupied France, coordinated intelligence, organized safe houses, helped escaped prisoners and airmen, and supported maquis fighters who sabotaged German operations during the liberation of France. Known to the Gestapo as “the Limping Lady,” Hall worked with a wooden prosthetic leg she nicknamed Cuthbert. After escaping over the Pyrenees, she returned to France in 1944 under disguise, operating a radio, arranging parachute drops, and helping organize resistance forces against the German occupation.