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WW2 Women on the Frontline
Behind Enemy Lines
Season 1
Episode 101
Brave women across Europe risked everything to battle against Hitler ’s Nazi hordes behind enemy lines. This intriguing episode reveals just some of them. Josephine Baker used her celebrity status to smuggle information to the Allies. A wireless operator in France single-handedly supported a Paris spy network. And teenage girls in the Netherlands bravely assassinated Nazi officers.
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Includes the little-known feats of female journalists, nurses and guerilla fighters.
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Meet the female flying aces who took on Hitler’s aerial threat and helped win the war.