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.
