Seventy years ago, a group of American women journalists made history when they covered D-Day. The BBC's Lyse Doucet looks back at a turning point for female war correspondents.
US General George Patton , known as 'Old Blood and Guts', seen here during conversation with war correspondents attached to his 3rd Army somewhere in France.
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One of America’s only female war correspondents captured the war through women’s service.
Studio portrait of Dickey Chapelle in uniform with a "war correspondent" patch on her sleeve.
“You can do anything you want to do if you want to do it so badly you’ll give up everything else to do it,” the Wisconsin-born photojournalist Dickey Chapelle said, according to her biography.
Brief biographies of female journalists of the world war II era that broke ground as trailblazing war correspondents and photographers.
Thérèse said things like, “women should wear pants in war” and was decorated for bravery more than once. Bonney was known for getting close to the action and being a bit reckless. She would probabl…
For a long time, Lee Miller lived in history as the love and muse of Man Ray. The American artist helped shape her into the Dada-era darling we remember today – who could forget those lips? In recent years, however, … Continue reading →
Margaret Bourke White, the first Western photographer officially able to cover the Soviet Union, was born on June 14, 1904
Clare Hollingworth - who was one of the best war correspondents of the 20th century, covering conflicts from Algeria to Vietnam, Poland to India - is set to celebrate her 104th birthday on Saturday.
Watch the video that shows how famed photojournalist Robert Capa's negatives were almost lost
B 8827. Second Lieutenant Jerzy Januszajtis a Polish Army Film Unit cameraman filming from the top of a Sherman tank of the 1st Polish Armoured Division at the beginning of the Operation 'Totalise' south of Caen 8 August 1944
