Virginia Hall

<p><strong>Virginia Hall Goillot</strong> <a title= "Distinguished Service Cross (United States)" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Cross_(United_States)">DSC</a>, <a title="Croix de Guerre" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croix_de_Guerre">Croix de Guerre</a>, <span class="noexcerpt nowraplinks"><a title= "Order of the British Empire" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire">MBE</a></span> (April 6, 1906 – July 8, 1982), code named <strong>Marie</strong> and <strong>Diane,</strong> was an <a title="Americans" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans">American</a> who worked with the <a title="United Kingdom" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>'s clandestine <a title="Special Operations Executive" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive">Special Operations Executive</a> (SOE) and the <a title= "United States" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">American</a> <a title="Office of Strategic Services" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services">Office of Strategic Services</a> (OSS) in <a title="France" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">France</a> during <a title="World War II" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II">World War II</a>. The objective of SOE and OSS was to conduct <a title= "Espionage" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage">espionage</a>, <a title="Sabotage" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage">sabotage</a> and <a title="Reconnaissance" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconnaissance">reconnaissance</a> in occupied Europe against the <a title="Axis powers" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers">Axis powers</a>, especially <a title="Nazi Germany" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany">Nazi Germany</a>. SOE and OSS agents in France allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England. After World War II Hall worked for the <a