Feature Essay: Gertie, the Accidental WWII Spy

She stumbled into danger, but kept her secrets

This week in 1944, Allied forces succeeded in liberating Paris from the Nazi army that had occupied it for four long years. This day of overwhelming joy for the French would have tremendous implications for a South Carolina woman then working in London for the Office of Strategic Services. Her name was Gertrude Sanford Legendre and she is the subject of…