User blog:Elgb333/WWII Female Heroes Duel to the Death!

Damn. I was really planning to release this in September 2 to commemorate the anniversary of the Darkest Moment in human History... World War II!

I know what you guys are thinking. World War II? (Sigh) We've done that thing already. So many times in the past months in fact, it maybe nauseating for some of you beyond belief. But I tell you this my dear Deadliest Fictioners! (TM) World War II is an even filled with an unlimited amount of stories about courage, genius and bravery. And though previously, we have tackled a lot of characters such as the soldiers who bled and the generals who think, they are all macho-men of pure honor and dedication.

But one small group that we should also put light upon are the women who lived and died in that era. They have suffered, bled and fought just as much as the men you see much in war movies. From the poor comfort women of grief, the nurses overseas and the workers at home, to the female spies and guerrillas who risked their lives in order to win, women are a major part of why we Allies won the war. While the evil Axis did nothing but to shame and degrade women, we here in Deadliest Fictions knows, that they too are heroes whose stories need to be heard!

And what more than to pit these two badass female fighters of WWII in a duel to the death!

Nancy Wake: British spy and resistance leader whose exploits against the Nazis become the enduring stereotype of all female spies in fiction!

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Nieves Fernandez: Filipino schoolteacher turned fearsome guerrilla fighter whose jungle warfare made foreign occupation Hell to the Imperialists.

It's time to decide who is... the deadliest female warrior!

Nancy Wake
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake AC, GM (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011) served as a British Special Operations Executive agent during the later part of World War II. She became a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance and was one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen of the war. After the fall of France in 1940, she became a courier for the French Resistance and later joined the escape network of Captain Ian Garrow. By 1943, Wake was the Gestapo's most wanted person, with a 5 million-franc price on her head. She was once captured and interrogated for days, but gave no secrets away.

She was highly trained and briefed, proving herself to be an adapt crackshot, and was airdropped back into France -as an official spy and warrior. Wake had no trouble shooting Nazis or blowing up buildings with the French guerrilla fighters known as maquis in the service of the resistance. She once killed an SS sentry with her bare hands. After the war, Nancy Wake was awarded the George Medal from the British, the Medal of Freedom from the U.S., and the Médaille de la Résistance and three Croix de Guerre from France, among other honors. She also found out that her husband had died in 1943 when the Gestapo had tortured him to find out his wife's whereabouts. He refused any cooperation to the point of death. Wake ran for political office a few times in Australia, and remarried in the 1950s. She published her biography, The White Mouse, in 1988. That was the Gestapo's nickname for her due to her talent for sneaking by them. Nancy Wake died August 7, 2011 at age 98. Close=Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Dagger The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Dagger is a famous dagger designed by two famous creators of modern-day self-defense to which the knife was named from. The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife is a double-edged fighting knife with an innovative foil grip used mainly by special forces for close-quarters combat. The knife is designed to inflict both stabbing and slashing wounds, and can be thrown at a distance. It saw extensive use by WWII-era commandos as a stealth weapon.
 * 11.5 inch
 * Double-edge

The MP 40 was a submachine gun chambered for the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. It was developed in Nazi Germany and used extensively by the Axis powers during World War II. The MP 40 submachine guns are open-bolt, blowback-operated automatic arms. Fully automatic fire was the only setting, but the relatively low rate of fire allowed for single shots with controlled trigger pulls. Contrary to popular belief, the MP-40 did not saw extensive use by the French resistance until the German's retreat of France.
 * -|Mid=MP 40
 * 9mm
 * 32-round magazine
 * 500 rpm

The British helped the French a lot to battle the Nazis at home. As Allies, the Brits smuggled weapons to France; one was the popular Enfield family of rifles. The Lee-Enfield was one of the most produced rifle of the British in WWII. The Lee action cocked the striker on the closing stroke of the bolt, making the initial opening much faster and easier compared to the "cock on opening" (i.e., the firing pin cocks upon opening the bolt) of the Mauser Gewehr 98 design. The rear-mounted lugs place the bolt operating handle much closer to the operator, over the trigger, making it quicker to operate than traditional designs like the Mauser.[4] The rifle was also equipped with a detachable sheet-steel, 10-round, double-column magazine, a very modern development in its day.
 * -|Long=Lee-Enfield rifle
 * .303 Mk VII SAA Ball
 * 10-round magazine
 * Bolt-action
 * 20-30 rpm
 * 550 yards

As a spy and saboteur, one of Wake's onjectives was to plant bombs and demolish Nazi war machines and infrastructures. As such, she brought with her plastic explosives to be used by the French resistance. The British invented the substances used to create these bombs. They are very light and easily to mold; hence the term "plastic explosives". They were easy to smuggle, cheap to produce, and craftable to any size and shape. They were so successful, that the Nazis even adopted them in their own nefarious plans; with one being used in the unsuccessful assassination attempt to Hitler (Operation: Valkyrie).
 * -|Explosive=Plastic Explosive

Nieves Fernandez
Captain Nieves Fernandez was schoolteacher who became the only known Filipino female guerrilla leader. Working with guerrillas south of Tacloban, Miss Fernandez rounded up native men to resist the Japanese. She commanded 110 native who killed more than 200 Japanese with knifes and shotguns made from sections of gas pipe. The Japanese offered 10.000 pesos for her head. She was wounded once. There is a bullet scar on her right forearm. Nobody knows who she was before the war, but her bravery even reached the newspapers of the US overseas. In her battles, she was a master guerrilla fighter; an excellent crackshot and hand-to-hand combatant. She helped liberate her island from the country, and the guerrillas also provided valuable intelligence during MacArthur's assault on the islands.

Intense and bloody fighting also occurred much in Leyte before the arrival of Gen. McArthur. Waray guerrillas under Captain Nieves Fernandez, a former schoolteacher, fought the Japanese in Tacloban. Being infamously known as a crackshot, Nieves extensively trained her men in combat skills and the making of improvised weaponry. She also led her men in the front, once taking out 200 Japanese soldiers with only 110 men, and the Japanese posted a 10,000 Pesos reward on her head. The guerrillas in Leyte were also very instrumental not only in the opposition against Japanese rule, but also in the safety and aide of the civilians living in the island. In the book The Hidden Battle of Leyte: The Picture Diary of a Girl taken by the Japanese Military by Remedios Felias; a former comfort woman, revealed how the Filipino guerrillas saved the lives of many young girls raped or to-be raped by the Japanese. In her vivid account of the Battle of Burauen, she recounts how the guerrillas managed to wipe out entire Japanese platoons off the various villages in the municipality, eventually saving the lives of many. Close=Bolo The bolo knife is one of the most famous Filipino weapon, recognized worldwide together with the balisong. Also known as the itak or the sundang, it is a Filipino knife similar to a machete, used for cutting grass and brush, opening coconuts, and other mundane tasks, as well as in combat. The bolo's blade widens near the end, moving the center of gravity forward and allowing in to cut with greater force. Fernandez was an expert in the use of the bolo, and in her interviews she revealed how she used the knife to stealthily kill enemies by the throat.
 * 18 inch
 * Single-edge

The Americans loved to export their own weapons to their Allies even before WWII became a thing. Although some were crappy, some of the guns they've sent to their Allies where state of the art. One of them was the famous M3A1 Grease Gun. It saw extensive exportation by Americans to their allies; in some cases parachuted to enemy-occupied land to be used by various resistance. Adopted for U.S. Army service chambered for the same .45 round fired by the Thompson submachine gun, but was cheaper to produce, lighter, and more accurate. Due to the large .45 ACP caliber round the M3/M3A1 fires and its simple construction with stamped/pressed steel it is very reliable, extremely simple to operate, compact, has .45 caliber knockdown power, relatively high controllability on full auto due to decreased cyclic rate of fire, simple to fix and maintain, cheap to manufacture and very easily suppressed and/or converted to 9X19mm.
 * -|Mid=M3A1 Grease Gun
 * .45 ACP
 * 30-round magazine
 * 450 rpm

In her only known existing photo, Fernandez is seen carrying the classic M1 Carbine. The M1 carbine (formally the United States Carbine, Caliber .30, M1) is a lightweight .30 caliber semi-automatic carbine that became a standard firearm for the U.S. military during World War II. The M1 carbine's bolt mechanism is similar to that of the M1 rifle, though the carbine has a different gas system and trigger mechanism design. The gas system is a lightweight tappet-and-slide gas system. Initially fed from a 15-round magazine, a 30-round magazine was introduced for the M2.
 * -|Long=M1 Carbine
 * .30 Carbine
 * 15-round magazine
 * Semi-auto
 * 850 rpm
 * 300 yards

The Americans also inserted tons of TNT explosives to be used by the resistance. The explosive was in a strap-on form with a timer; used to demolish buildings, vehicles and people.
 * -|Explosive=TNT

X-Factors
 Nancy Wake vs Nieves Fernandez

80 - Training - 70

Both warriors started out as civilians. But while Fernandez extensively trained her men in combat, and she might have the traidtional ROTC training everyone of her time had, it's still not as good as the training Nancy had with the British intelligence. Those guys taught her everything from explosives to parachuting.

68 - Logistics - 65

As guerrilla warriors, these warriors aren't rich or well-suuplied. They constatnly have to scavenge and depend on the weapons smuggled to them. Some even had to craft and improvise their own weapons. But Nancy gets the slight edge here due to the fact taht she's actually the supplier of these guerrilla units. However, this is only a

85 - Experience - 78

Fighting as a resistance ain't easy. Not only are you up against a more powerful foe having a firm hold of your country, you are also forced to use wit and stealth to even get an edge in a fight. And while Nancy had her own share of shootouts and killings, they were few and far between. Nieves and her guerillas on the other hand killed hundreds of Japanese in her time in multiple shootouts across the island.

88 - Killer Instinct - 84

While Nancy is artistic in blowing up Nazi scums all across France, this is nothing compared to what Nievez have accomplished. She personally slit Japanese throats like they were leather.