Cycling to restore radio contactSourced
Nancy Wake recalled a long ride for communications
After her wartime team lost its radio and codes, Nancy Wake recalled borrowing a bicycle to reach another radio operator and report to London. She described a round trip of roughly five hundred kilometres in seventy-two hours.
Restoring distant communication required physical travel.
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