Which WWII Heroine Could You Have Been?

Wake's career as a journalist set her up for a brave life of spying and eventually fighting the Nazis. After serving as a spy and hiding and smuggling hundreds of men out of France, Wake was eventually trained in combat, weapons, and parachuting. Wake blew up Nazi buildings, smuggled supplies and documents in and out of France, and even killed an SS officer with her bare hands. Wake's first husband died after being tortured by the Nazis in an attempt to locate her. He never gave her up! Wake was awarded many medals of honor by the British and US governments.

A trained nurse before WWII broke out, Elsie Ott joined the US Air Corp. She flew hundreds of rescue and evacuation flights for wounded soldiers. She was often the only nurse on the flights and would have to tend to hundreds of wounded soldiers with varying degrees of injury. She was brave and relentless in her efforts to save every soldier in her care.

Peshkova was drafted into the Russian Army at age 17. She was trained in weapons and medical care, and was assigned to a unit that was very underequipped. Her weapon didn't work, and she once had to survive an entire month with only one boot, because a horse had eaten the other one while she slept. She was separated from her unit and had to disguise herself to get back to her unit undetected by the Germans. She accompanied thousands of wounded soldiers from the front lines to hospitals. She also worked to keep fighting soldiers safe from disease and starvation.

A nurse and an ambulance driver in North Africa, Travers refused to be evacuated with the other female personnel when her unit came under attack. She hid with the rest of her unit for 15 days in sand dunes. When trying to escape, they were noticed when a land mine exploded. Travers was the lead driver, and she led over 2,500 troops to safety while driving at outrageous speeds, through land mines, and under machine-gun fire. When she and her unit arrived at an Allied camp hours later, her vehicle was full of bullet holes. Despite her terrifying circumstances, Travers was brave and cunning, and saved thousands of soldiers with her efforts!

Trained as a radio operator, Nearne was airdropped into occupied France to relay messages to the French resistance. She was once captured and tortured by the Nazis before being placed in a concentration camp. She was transferred twice to labor camps and escaped during the second transfer. Then, after lying her way out of trouble with an SS Officer, she hid in a church until the area was liberated by Allied forces. Despite being tortured and confined to terrible conditions, Nearne never gave up and never revealed any secrets!

Despite coming from a very wealthy background, Skarbek signed up with Britain's Section D and worked in Poland for many years, organizing the Polish resistance and smuggling out Polish pilots. She was once arrested by the Gestapo and questioned for hours but faked a case of TB by biting her tongue until she bled, and she was released. She then trained as a radio operator and a paratrooper. When she was airdropped into France, she realized her destination had been overrun with Nazis, so she hiked 70 miles to safety. She then worked in the Alps, approaching and turning Axis fighters with great success. She also rescued several Allied prisoners of war in the process. She was considered to be a top-notch spy.