Bag om She Was A WW II Photographer Behind Enemy Lines
Meet Lieutenant Adeline Peterson, war correspondent in eleven theaters of war - a brave, determined, and resilient woman who broke gender biases to photograph the world and document the atrocities of war.
§ Caught in a Black Blizzard in Oklahoma, endured swarms of locusts ¿
§ Photographed Depression-era dance marathons, visited illegal speakeasies ¿
§ Detained by a Nazi officer under gunpoint in Czechoslovakia ¿
§ Fled Paris on foot and got caught in the Blitz in London ¿
§ Photographed the Nazi takeover of Greece ¿
§ Jailed in Belgrade by the Gestapö
§ Photographed the first bomb to fall on Moscow ¿
§ Torpedoed at sea in North Africa in a convoy headed töwar ¿
§ Hit by Junker planes in a B-17 Flying Fortress ¿
§ Stowed away on a hospital ship during D-Day and arrested ¿for disobeying orders ¿
§ Witnessed machine-gun fire during the liberation of France ¿
§ Almost hit by Japanese snipers on Mt. Suribachi in Iwo Jima ¿
§ Arrested for disobeying orders during the battle of Okinawa ¿
§ First war correspondent to document the liberation of the ¿Buchenwald concentration camp ¿
§ Toured Mengele's torture chambers after the liberation of the ¿Dachau concentration camp ¿
Witnessed Disease X after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki
Photographed refugee's after the war for the Quakers.
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