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 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 Mengeles torture chambers after the liberation of the 
Dachau concentration camp 
 Witnessed Disease X after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki Photographed refugees after the war for the Quakers.