Virginia Hall · Virginia Hall: The Limping Lady

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The spy who turned a wooden leg, a radio, and a network into Allied resistance. A memento mori obituary comic centered on After losing her lower left leg in a hunting accident, Virginia Hall used a wooden prosthetic named Cuthbert while serving with SOE and OSS in occupied France, evading the Gestapo and organizing Resistance networks.

Citable Summary

Virginia Hall (1906–1982) is featured in an obituary comic about mortality, work, and what remains.
The comic centers on this mortality event: After losing her lower left leg in a hunting accident, Virginia Hall used a wooden prosthetic named Cuthbert while serving with SOE and OSS in occupied France, evading the Gestapo and organizing Resistance networks.
The reader version includes image pages, a PDF, and sources including CIA; The National Archives; Smithsonian Magazine; New York Times.

Story Notes

This comic follows Virginia Hall, The spy who turned a wooden leg, a radio, and a network into Allied resistance.

The story turns on After losing her lower left leg in a hunting accident, Virginia Hall used a wooden prosthetic named Cuthbert while serving with SOE and OSS in occupied France, evading the Gestapo and organizing Resistance networks, treating that encounter with death as the pressure point for the work that followed.

The source trail for this page includes CIA; The National Archives; Smithsonian Magazine; New York Times.

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The National Archives
Smithsonian Magazine
New York Times

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