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.