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.