Description

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.