Think that mouse was impressive? Then check out this video and find out about The Youngest To Serve in WWII: The Story of 12 Year Old Calvin Graham: ruclips.net/video/gyPSxNN8uKo/видео.html
sophrapsune - Mme Vve Nancy Fiocca (nee Wake) is a lady who has held my attention for a number of years together with the fascinating crowd she ran with and the equally interesting crowd she ran from. For that reason your comment has left myself and perhaps others frustrated and wishing for a bit more about your encounter. Anyone interested in learning what the archives have on her can access her & and her husband Henri's 'Helper' files available at NARA (National American Archives & Administration), Washington D.C.
It is good to see one of these videos about a person I have been lucky enough to have actually met. Nancy retired with her husband to Port Macquarie, 400km north of Sydney. After I took part in a military parade with the army in that town, Nancy joined all the soldiers and shared a drink (or two) with us. She was a forceful and interesting person to chat with. People should try to see the Australian TV mini series about her life, not the Charlotte Gray movie.
Doris C The movie is only inspired by her life, this strays from her real life, while the mini series is based on her actual life. It is not to say it is a bad movie, just the relevance to her life is questionable.
@Doris C - regarding "is the movie mostly false as other documentaries are?", and more specifically "false as other documentaries" - "documentaries" _by definition_ are supposed "to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record"[1] - i.e. to be a _trueful_ representation of known _facts_. Movies on the other hand can be "based on true events" or completely fictional. There are twists that use typical documentary styles in a fictional way (e.g. mock-umentaries), but actual documentaries should be as accurate _as possible_ [2]. While it is certainly possible that a documentary can include blatant deception, as a genre they take great pride in being as accurate as possible, and those who don't tend to get called out by those that do [3]. [1] - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film [2] - www.documentary.org/magazine/where-truth-lies-or-not & www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-true-false-documentary-trump-20170310-story.html [3] - www.videomaker.com/article/c06/18569-documentary-bias-rearranging-the-truth
boo yah listen.... pfft... did ask for a school teacher view upon this? I'm pretty old and wise in my life times age. I asked the Aussie a question because she's seen them both. I didn't ask you a book report for anything. there happens to be a few documentary movies out there over 90% legit factual based.... vs most is a movie written on the idea of facts. its the reason I asked HER who is very knowledgeable to answer my question. mind you she met her once and seems to know her shit... at least enough for me to respect HER opinion upon.
Nancy Wake is a true unsung hero. It was only in the last 15 or so years that I remember her story becoming public, and I am in awe of what she did at great peril to her own life. I remember seeing an interview with her some years ago, and she still came across as a real feisty woman. Which, I guess, is how she managed to do what she did all those years ago.
I had never heard of her until I stayed at the Stafford Hotel in London. In the bar was a comfy-looking chair with a ribbon stretched from arm to arm. A small sign said “In honor of the White Mouse.” She had lived there for years with all bills paid by Prince Charles. RIP Nancy. ❤️
Be there was 1 that sounded like a James bond kind of mission where she was on a train killed 4 Nazis bare handed and jumped from that train while it was moving to another moving train and she was lovely very lady like white gloves always well dressed elegant always
I personally knew Nancy for more than forty years (in Australia) and told me that she despised being referred as a "SPY", my own father was also an agent in Special Operations Executive,French section ; unfortunately he was betrayed in Paris and executed on 29th March,1945 in Flossenburg Concentration Camp in S/E Bavaria only several weeks prior to liberation by the US Army ! Agents were not trained as spies but to train the Maquis and carry out clandestine operations against the Nazis !
You are very lucky to have known her. I met her once, in a London club and it was a liberating experience to see her and hear her, of her fearlessness when a man rudely interrupted us and the way she dealt with him by throwing a bottle of red wine at him, he dodged it and later reappeared to reoffer it with his apologies, which she accepted. And we drank it. She was a great lady.
What makes you claim that they were looked upon as children? Have you met the men and women of that generation? None that I know were viewed as children, nor would they have accepted being treated as such.
I’m betting it was her nationality more than just her sex that was a problem. Women from that era were very strong and respected. Men knew that they could leave to fight for their country and their wives and mothers would be quite capable of taking care of the home, the family , the kids education, the farms etc. today would that same trust be misplaced? Today we seem for be told our men are just over grown children and our women are more interested in finding themselves than helping to build a society, the family being the biggest and most important building block. They have been so intent on devaluing their importance to the family that they now know less about who the wha5 they are than before. Men have become useless and children are tax write offs and social security benefits. Women had more power then than they do now. Talk to those women who actually lived in these times. Their practical knowledge base alone is amazing, thing is back then this was the rule rather than the exception. My university degree(s) are worthless when compered to the knowledge I learned from my grandmother’s knee. Sure I can command a good salary or contract but that lasts one lifetime. My grandmother and her knowledge lives on. Stop degrading the might of the women who went before us, they had the guts to raise a family and keep it together in the worst of times.
Her story also sounds similar to Andrée De Jongh, a 19-year-old Belgian woman who created an escape route over the Pyrenees Mountains out of Nazi-occupied France. It's so awe inspiring to learn about these women.
If they tried to put her actions into 'Agent Carter' it would have been dismissed as 'unbelievable', despite it occurring in a world of Green giants, Norse Gods, and Wakanda... best to let her bad-assery stand on it's own, in the real world
Ms Wake act ad died on 7 August in a nursing home in London, aged 98. She was the most-decorated service woman of the war, working with the French resistance. Her great-grandmother was a Ngapuhi woman, Pourewa who was married to an Englishman by the missionary Henry Williams. As a child in the 1920's, Nancy stayed with her grandparents in Mangonui. www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/83336/nancy-wake-honoured-by-mangonui
+Today I Found Out Hey, love the videos! Ever think of doing a video on Tokyo Rose? I'm reading Eugene Fluckey's Thunder Below and they mention her multiple times there. Thought it would be cool. Cheers
some soldier dude: ok lady you can gulp down allot of alcohol now lets see what else you can swallow *next day* same soldier dude: HOLY SHIAT THIS LADY JUST DRANK A BOTTLE OF VINEGAR AND BLEACH AND IS STILL ALIVE OH MERGURD!😂
Just goes to prove if you wanna screw up the Germans day, find a slightly alcoholic British person, highly train them in all sorts of anti personnel/espionage maneuvers, and throw them at their base
Technically Aussies and Kiwis were British subjects until the 60's. This is partly what is causing the dual citizen problem in Australia's parliament this year.
@Heart Poole I thought Australia got independence in 1901? www.australia.gov.au/about-government/how-government-works/federation Or is there more to it than that?
Yes, Australia was independent in 1901 but was still subject to the British state by varying (decreasing) degrees until 1981. The Queen rules Australia as Queen of Australia, but before the 60's she ruled as Monarch of the British Empire (I forget the exact title). So Australians were not British Nationals, but were British subjects. Also all oaths for police, military, judiciary etc are made to the crown which was British (in the Imperial sense).
Not given a medal by Australia directly after the war because she did not serve with Australian forces.... No other democratic country in the world has authorities that are as much in love with bureaucratic technicalities as Australia's authorities are!
12 downvotes? This story does miss some significant events such as the Nazi torture she endured and never broke. Maybe too gruesome for RUclips? Watch the movie.
There are several movies and TV series about her. There is a 1987 Australien TV series on her exploits called Nancy Wake starring Noni Hazlehurst. Another was made around 2014.
Think that mouse was impressive? Then check out this video and find out about The Youngest To Serve in WWII: The Story of 12 Year Old Calvin Graham:
ruclips.net/video/gyPSxNN8uKo/видео.html
Thanks for this.
I met Nancy Wake at a social function in 1993. She was, let’s say, a woman of very strong will.
Requiescat in pace.
sophrapsune - Mme Vve Nancy Fiocca (nee Wake) is a lady who has held my attention for a number of years together with the fascinating crowd she ran with and the equally interesting crowd she ran from. For that reason your comment has left myself and perhaps others frustrated and wishing for a bit more about your encounter.
Anyone interested in learning what the archives have on her can access her & and her husband Henri's 'Helper' files available at NARA (National American Archives & Administration), Washington D.C.
Died at 98. Even the Grim Reaper was scared of her ...
rumour has it when he came for her she kicked his ass and took his job...
It is good to see one of these videos about a person I have been lucky enough to have actually met. Nancy retired with her husband to Port Macquarie, 400km north of Sydney. After I took part in a military parade with the army in that town, Nancy joined all the soldiers and shared a drink (or two) with us. She was a forceful and interesting person to chat with. People should try to see the Australian TV mini series about her life, not the Charlotte Gray movie.
Graeme Bray
why? is the movie mostly false as other documentaries are?
Doris C The movie is only inspired by her life, this strays from her real life, while the mini series is based on her actual life. It is not to say it is a bad movie, just the relevance to her life is questionable.
Graeme Bray
thanks. it figures regarding the movie because that's usually how it rolls.
@Doris C - regarding "is the movie mostly false as other documentaries are?", and more specifically "false as other documentaries" - "documentaries" _by definition_ are supposed "to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record"[1] - i.e. to be a _trueful_ representation of known _facts_. Movies on the other hand can be "based on true events" or completely fictional. There are twists that use typical documentary styles in a fictional way (e.g. mock-umentaries), but actual documentaries should be as accurate _as possible_ [2]. While it is certainly possible that a documentary can include blatant deception, as a genre they take great pride in being as accurate as possible, and those who don't tend to get called out by those that do [3].
[1] - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film
[2] - www.documentary.org/magazine/where-truth-lies-or-not & www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-true-false-documentary-trump-20170310-story.html
[3] - www.videomaker.com/article/c06/18569-documentary-bias-rearranging-the-truth
boo yah
listen.... pfft... did ask for a school teacher view upon this? I'm pretty old and wise in my life times age.
I asked the Aussie a question because she's seen them both.
I didn't ask you a book report for anything.
there happens to be a few documentary movies out there over 90% legit factual based.... vs most is a movie written on the idea of facts.
its the reason I asked HER who is very knowledgeable to answer my question. mind you she met her once and seems to know her shit... at least enough for me to respect HER opinion upon.
Nancy Wake is a true unsung hero. It was only in the last 15 or so years that I remember her story becoming public, and I am in awe of what she did at great peril to her own life. I remember seeing an interview with her some years ago, and she still came across as a real feisty woman.
Which, I guess, is how she managed to do what she did all those years ago.
I had never heard of her until I stayed at the Stafford Hotel in London. In the bar was a comfy-looking chair with a ribbon stretched from arm to arm. A small sign said “In honor of the White Mouse.” She had lived there for years with all bills paid by Prince Charles. RIP Nancy. ❤️
I worked in the care home where she spent her last remaining years such an amazing woman rip
Myles Hepburn what was she like and what kind of stories did she tell?
Be there was 1 that sounded like a James bond kind of mission where she was on a train killed 4 Nazis bare handed and jumped from that train while it was moving to another moving train and she was lovely very lady like white gloves always well dressed elegant always
WOW! thanks for sharing! she was a totally amazing person
Coming from anyone else, I might think that was an exaggerated tale, but from her, it might actually have happened, ha.
Sources/proof? A nice tall tale, for now, until sources of some substantiality can be provided.
Great Video!
Spy: Are you the White Mouse?
Nancy: No, I'm Batman. (Breaks dudes neck)
More like Peggy Carter
Ben Lasher the other sentries probably found a card signed "The Legend 27".
One person standing up for what's right. never accept evil, you can make a difference!! Such a great example of humanity xxx
Great vid. True hero who couldn’t sit back and do nothing when there was something to be done
What a badass broad.
Now I want a documentary on women spies done by the same voice actress of Mallory Archer from the tv show Archer.
To be fair, the guy said that she would be lucky, he never said the people around her would be lucky.
but her first husband was loyal to the end
I personally knew Nancy for more than forty years (in Australia) and told me that she despised being referred as a "SPY", my own father was also an agent in Special Operations Executive,French section ; unfortunately he was betrayed in Paris and executed on 29th March,1945 in Flossenburg Concentration Camp in S/E Bavaria only several weeks prior to liberation by the US Army !
Agents were not trained as spies but to train the Maquis and carry out clandestine operations against the Nazis !
You are very lucky to have known her. I met her once, in a London club and it was a liberating experience to see her and hear her, of her fearlessness when a man rudely interrupted us and the way she dealt with him by throwing a bottle of red wine at him, he dodged it and later reappeared to reoffer it with his apologies, which she accepted. And we drank it. She was a great lady.
What an incredible woman. In a time when women were looked on like children if they were considered at all. Remarkable story.
There were a few of them. He has done at least one other vid.
What makes you claim that they were looked upon as children?
Have you met the men and women of that generation?
None that I know were viewed as children, nor would they have accepted being treated as such.
sophrapsune probably the part where they said the resistance would not take a woman seriously.
@Mark Antill Would they do today, given the same circumstances?
I’m betting it was her nationality more than just her sex that was a problem. Women from that era were very strong and respected. Men knew that they could leave to fight for their country and their wives and mothers would be quite capable of taking care of the home, the family , the kids education, the farms etc. today would that same trust be misplaced? Today we seem for be told our men are just over grown children and our women are more interested in finding themselves than helping to build a society, the family being the biggest and most important building block. They have been so intent on devaluing their importance to the family that they now know less about who the wha5 they are than before. Men have become useless and children are tax write offs and social security benefits. Women had more power then than they do now. Talk to those women who actually lived in these times. Their practical knowledge base alone is amazing, thing is back then this was the rule rather than the exception. My university degree(s) are worthless when compered to the knowledge I learned from my grandmother’s knee. Sure I can command a good salary or contract but that lasts one lifetime. My grandmother and her knowledge lives on. Stop degrading the might of the women who went before us, they had the guts to raise a family and keep it together in the worst of times.
Bravery incarnated. Now THAT is a full blown superheroine.
Her story also sounds similar to Andrée De Jongh, a 19-year-old Belgian woman who created an escape route over the Pyrenees Mountains out of Nazi-occupied France. It's so awe inspiring to learn about these women.
never heard of her before, fascinating
Lovely! Sensitive! Excellently told! Thanks for the video!
another Real life Peggy Carter?!
If they tried to put her actions into 'Agent Carter' it would have been dismissed as 'unbelievable', despite it occurring in a world of Green giants, Norse Gods, and Wakanda... best to let her bad-assery stand on it's own, in the real world
More like a real life black widow
She probably wasn't scared because she was drunk!
Lmao, I was thinking the same thing.
Remember what Churchill said, "I have taken more out of alcohol then alcohol has taken out of me."
Dead Frt West Churchill is a badass
Born in Wellington, New Zealand? Me too!! Wellington represent!!
GO THE HURRICANES!!
Ms Wake act ad died on 7 August in a nursing home in London, aged 98. She was the most-decorated service woman of the war, working with the French resistance. Her great-grandmother was a Ngapuhi woman, Pourewa who was married to an Englishman by the missionary Henry Williams. As a child in the 1920's, Nancy stayed with her grandparents in Mangonui. www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/83336/nancy-wake-honoured-by-mangonui
She's is like a real life Black Widow. How inspiring! Great video.
+Today I Found Out Hey, love the videos! Ever think of doing a video on Tokyo Rose? I'm reading Eugene Fluckey's Thunder Below and they mention her multiple times there. Thought it would be cool. Cheers
All the best Australians, are Kiwis.
That's a bad bitch. ☠️🤙💝R.I.P.
Merry Christmas, Simon!
Merry Christmas Joshua. :-)
some soldier dude: ok lady you can gulp down allot of alcohol now lets see what else you can swallow
*next day*
same soldier dude: HOLY SHIAT THIS LADY JUST DRANK A BOTTLE OF VINEGAR AND BLEACH AND IS STILL ALIVE OH MERGURD!😂
Good to see Simon on here. I watched a vid from this Chan the other day and it had some other cat.
Wollongong? Hahahaha! 🍄💋🍄💋
@3:33 Pretty sure that's not how you say Vichy.
Yup.
they liberated VIkki, who had fallen into nazi hands
That woman was more badass and fearless than James Bond.
NewZealand! Whaka yeah! Although she did live in straya..
Happy New Years to all!
Follow the white mouse mick. And you should find how deep the hoover bag goes.
Woot. New Zealand!!!
Halfway through the video I thought this would make a good movie.
Hello there Simon
Jedi Kenobi...
Hello, Jesus.
Hello there Obi-Wan Kenobi. I see Yoda's taught you the trick of interacting with the physical world from the great beyond.
Wow,lucky is she indeed.
What a great NZer!
Just goes to prove if you wanna screw up the Germans day, find a slightly alcoholic British person, highly train them in all sorts of anti personnel/espionage maneuvers, and throw them at their base
Australian not British
Technically Australia was independent in 1901 so not British.
Technically Aussies and Kiwis were British subjects until the 60's. This is partly what is causing the dual citizen problem in Australia's parliament this year.
@Heart Poole I thought Australia got independence in 1901? www.australia.gov.au/about-government/how-government-works/federation
Or is there more to it than that?
Yes, Australia was independent in 1901 but was still subject to the British state by varying (decreasing) degrees until 1981. The Queen rules Australia as Queen of Australia, but before the 60's she ruled as Monarch of the British Empire (I forget the exact title).
So Australians were not British Nationals, but were British subjects. Also all oaths for police, military, judiciary etc are made to the crown which was British (in the Imperial sense).
She needs a movie
Dont get in a drinking competition with someone from New Zealand i am an Australian and man can they drink any one under the table
Kiwi women are known as hardasses. The Maori midwife must've known something.
Wonderful video on a great woman of history!
She must have had the high ground. ;-)
Born in New Zealand.... Called her Australian.... Get it right Simon.
I thought this was going to be a video about something like how mice were bred to become white. This is much better.
Very good. Thank you!
Very interesting. Love your videos!
Not given a medal by Australia directly after the war because she did not serve with Australian forces.... No other democratic country in the world has authorities that are as much in love with bureaucratic technicalities as Australia's authorities are!
Wow! what an Inspirational story!
Like Marion in Indiana Jones!
12 downvotes? This story does miss some significant events such as the Nazi torture she endured and never broke. Maybe too gruesome for RUclips? Watch the movie.
K otgc maybe read her biography.
wow what a great person. Thanks
What an awesome woman! Skol!
Happy Boxing Day, Simon!
She then was killed by her favorite disciple, Naked Snake in 1964. Oh wait.
More than interesting...inspiring.
Alcoholic ... sociopath ... HERO.
So I guess it's still badass week? :-)
She killed aan with just her barehands by doing a judo chop to his throut!
I love queen of badassery.
very interesting indeed, thumbs up!
Fantastic video!
What does the postal service do with all the mail addressed to santa?
Dumb As A Moose
it goes to the north pole.
I actually use to know this answer and I've forgotten but this was back in 80's so may have changed.
Doris C does some guy add it to a mountain already afloat in the arctic circle or does santa meet the mail man at the door? ;)
I want a movie of her.. telling THIS true story. Would make a great one..
There are several movies and TV series about her. There is a 1987 Australien TV series on her exploits called Nancy Wake starring Noni Hazlehurst. Another was made around 2014.
Awesome video thank you
SHE DID THAT!!!!
I thought that karate hand move is only a thing which is used in movies but does not work in real life
She was fucking awesome.
3:35 ... "Vicky" ... yes just Victoria ... the rest of Vichy a little later ...
dont mess with that women
??? Why do cookies dipped in chocolate milk, as apposed to white, take much longer to soak up milk ???
Because chocolate milk is basically watered down syrup. If you get commercial stuff it also has thickeners.
Thank god that the video isn’t a dragged out 15min waffle to get higher viewing times
I think White Mouse deserves her own movie or at least a remake of Charlotte Grey.
6 G&Ts per day, she could teach Sterling Archer a thing or too!
Really good video
What an amazing woman!
Here's a idea why is spicy stuff associated with hot since spicy stuff is not burning
Derek Beatty because capsaicin in the peppers stimulate the same part of the brain as heat receptors making it taste “hot”. It is a defense mechanism
Isn't Maquis pronounced ma-kee? And Vichy pronounced vih-schee?
Inspiration for Malore Archer?
is it just me or did this channel all of a sudden blow up?!?
What a badass!
...It's Ve-Chee, not Vi-key
veni vidi vikey
he has a British accent; by default his pronunciation is correct.
At first I wondered who Vicky was and where she was being held prisoner. I thought I'd missed some key bit of information in the storyline.
i get the reference now.. i was wondering wtf that meant
Merci!
You guys should do a video on what makes certain animals edible or not
Simon, can you do a video on why Sleep is so important?
he did a similar video
Is she the inspiration for the boss from metal gear?
I’d have loved to work with her 🕵🏼♀️
Do search for " Bhagat Ram Talwar" aka "Silver" you might change your mind.
change what mind?
Simon, do fish feel pain ?
What a badass woman, holy shit.
Should do an educational channel for kids 5-12 type thing, I'd let you teach my kids :P
AMAZING!!!!
A glass of tea for the first husband😢
Heroes always suffer most. The world is garbage like that.
Who??