Virginia Hall

Virginia Hall Goillot DSC, Croix de Guerre,, code named Marie and Diane, was an American who worked with the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in France during World War II.

Before the war, Hall worked for the U.S. State Department. She had hoped to become a diplomat, but her ambitions were thwarted due to her gender and the loss of part of her leg in a hunting accident.

Hall's code names included Marie and Diane. The Germans nicknamed her Artemis and considered her "the most dangerous of all Allied spies." She used a prosthetic leg named Cuthbert. She was known as "The Limping Lady" by the Germans and "Marie of Lyon" by many of the SOE agents she helped.

Details about Virginia Hall's immediate family life are scarce in the provided text.