Josefina Guerrero was a Filipina spy during World War II who was responsible for saving the lives of thousands of American soldiers. She spied undetected on behalf of the Allied forces for years and was so effective because of her particular affliction: leprosy. She used her illness, which had caused her so much trauma and grief since her diagnosis, to save countless lives and help turn the tide of the war, and for that, she must be celebrated.

Sources:

https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/when-leprosy-made-her-the-most-reliable-spy-of-world-war-ii-4b3043b95199 - Jhemmylrut Teng

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/philippines-spy-joey-guerrero - Lea Schram von Haupt

http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,798844,00.html

A lot of this info also comes from the book Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II by Ben Montgomery: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781613734308

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