“I said to myself ‘what the hell,’” she reported “and started to get on with it in my part of the country.”15 Fortunately, such insubordination was tolerated, even encouraged, by Wild Bill Donovan, who liked to say, “I’d rather have a young lieutenant with guts enough to disobey an order than a colonel too regimented to think and act for himself.”16 But it was an unusual move for a woman.”
