Nancy saved WA airman, By GRAHAME ARMSTRONG

(EXCERPT) March 7, 2004

BOB Jones owes his life to Nancy Wake – widely considered to be the
bravest women to have fought in World War II.

Mr Jone, now 87, was a fighter pilot in the war and became a prisoner
of war after being shot down. He escaped near the Austrian border
while being transferred in a truck from Italy to Germany.

He and nine others ran, rolled and crawled into a cornfield with
German machinegun fire around them.

He spent days climbing mountains and crossing rivers before reaching
Switzerland, then crossed into France where he was put in touch with
Ms Wake's unit of the Maquis, an arm of the French Resistance.

For four months, Ms Wake's organisation clothed and fed Mr Jones,
protecting him from the na...

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