by Craig Gralley | Sep 3, 2018 | Virginia Hall
Walking with Virginia Hall In discovering and walking Virginia Hall’s trail through the Pyrenees, I imagined Virginia inching her way up steep, snow-covered slopes with her prosthetic left leg, “Cuthbert,” dragging behind her. The Challenges She...
by Craig Gralley | Jul 5, 2018 | Virginia Hall
Virginia stayed in France another two months after her September message warning London she’d been discovered. Changing her name and residence regularly, Hall told London she had one more mission–to help two British agents escape from prison. But the...
by Craig Gralley | May 9, 2018 | Virginia Hall
Working Behind the Lines in Vichy Virginia entered France in the spring of 1941 as an undercover agent for British Intelligence with a mission to provide information on political developments, economic conditions, and the French will to resist the German occupation....
by Craig Gralley | Mar 30, 2018 | Virginia Hall
Covering Her Tracks Virginia, recruited by British Intelligence to be its “eyes and ears” in Vichy France, needed a cover story to keep the French Secret Police and Gestapo from prying into her clandestine life. Early in 1941 she contacted a family friend...
by Craig Gralley | Mar 8, 2018 | Virginia Hall
Virginia’s Escape from Paris . . . After resigning from the US State Department in May 1939, Virginia stayed in Europe. Perhaps looking for new meaning in her life, she took a position with the French Ambulance Service and when the Nazis invaded France in May...
