Summary

In the aftermath of the Japanese attack on the American Navy Base at Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, Virginia’s editor at the New York Post urged her to come home. As America finally entered the war, Virginia refused to return home; “[her editor’s] call for her to abandon her post as the fight intensified had made her all the more inclined to stay” (82). She wrote letters to her superiors in London, speaking of her frustrations, but also of her determination to continue to the work and remain positive. She signed one of them “Dindy” (83), her childhood nickname, but the author comments that from that point on, “Dindy” and Virginia’s positive outlook both virtually disappeared; she became more focused than ever on the work.

Virginia’s determination and the growing regard with which she was regarded by her fellow agents...