She Was a WW II Photographer Behind Enemy Lines

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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 Gestapo¿ § Photographed the first bomb to fall on Moscow ¿ § Torpedoed at sea in North Africa in a convoy headed to¿war ¿ § 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.