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 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.