She Was A WW II Photographer Behind Enemy Lines - Jeane Slone E

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.