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Odette Marie Léonie Céline Brailly was born on 28 April 1912 at 208, rue des Corroyers in Amiens, France; [2] the daughter of Emma Rose Marie Yvonne née Quennehen [a] and Florentin Désiré Eugène 'Gaston' Brailly, [b] a bank manager, killed at Verdun shortly before the Armistice in 1918 and posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre and Médaille militaire for heroism. [3]
The Martinsville Seven were a group of seven African-American men from Martinsville, Virginia, who were all executed in 1951 by the state of Virginia after being convicted of raping a white woman. At the time of their arrest, all but one were between the ages of 18 and 23.
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Odette Hallowes GC MBE LdH (28 April 1912 – 13 March 1995), also known as Odette Sansom and Odette Churchill, was a Special Operations Executive agent during the Second World War. She was the first woman to be awarded the George Cross , the only woman to be both awarded the George Cross and appointed a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur , and ...
When two kids found a woman dead in the Virginia woods under carpet in 1986, it set off a decades-long search for her killer. Now, DNA evidence from another woman’s death in the ‘80s has led ...
[78] [79] Early in the war, American Virginia Hall functioned as the unofficial nerve center of several SOE networks in Vichy France. [80] Many women agents such as Odette Hallowes or Violette Szabo were decorated for bravery, posthumously in Szabo's case. Of SOE's 41 (or 39 in some estimates) female agents serving in Section F (France) sixteen ...
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