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A Career In Virginia Hall's Career

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Virginia Hall was born on April 6, 1906 in Baltimore, Maryland, into a wealthy family. Some of Hall’s schooling even took place in France, Austria, and Germany. When she was just 26 she accidentally shot off her foot while hunting turkey, having to have her leg amputated from the knee down. Because of her injury she couldn’t keep her job working in the Department of State, thus resigning in 1939.When the war broke out, Hall was living in Paris, France. She joined the British Secret Paramilitary Force Special Operations Executive(SOE), she was recruited by the SOE while riding on a train out of France. She worked with the SOE for about two years, in 1940 the Nazis started to overtake France and Hall had to flee the country. Hall escaped on foot,

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