Women WarCos WWII

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Virginia Irwin in her Red Cross Uniform c. 1943-44, before receiving her official press credential.  St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photo ID: 35597475
Look Back:  Virginia Irwin, 1945 May 8 --her first headline from Berlin.
Look Back:  Virginia Irwin, April 1945 with her Army driver, Sgt. Johnny Wilson.

Virginia Irwin

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Therese Bonney - Women Come to the Front | Exhibitions (Library of Congress)

Therese Bonney

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Life magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White prepares to take a photograph of a wagon piled with corpses in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.
bourke-white c. 1943 photo by Alfred Eisenstadt.
Feb. 1943 LIFE photographer Margaret Bourke-White in...

Margaret Bourke-White

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undated Chapelle in Military Uniform-- note US Navy Cap device
1942 Self-Portait of Dickey Chapelle
Dicky Chapelle in Iwo Okinawa c. 1945

Dickey Chapelle

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January 1944(Left to right): Ruth Cowan, Associated Press Sonia Tomara, New York Herald Tribune Rosette Hargrove, Newspaper Enterprise Association Betty Knox, London Evening Standard Iris Carpenter, Boston Globe Erika Mann, Liberty magazine. National Archives Local Identifier: 111-SC-192100
Ruth B. Cowan's ID/Credential

Ruth B. Cowan

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May Craig c. 1944
May Craig with a soldier c. 1945
May Craig - Women Come to the Front | Exhibitions (Library of Congress)

May Craig

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1943 Apr 19 Life Magazine GRD Pg 44 Gladys Rockmore Davis - Photo
After the Allies drove the German army out of Paris in August 1944, the bar at the city's Hotel Scribe became a favorite haunt for journalists. As one observer put it, an outgoing stream of "spruce correspondents" was always leaving the bar's comforts for the front lines and an incoming flow of "disheveled correspondents" just back from the front was eager to fill their seats. Among the Scribe's patrons was war illustrator Floyd Davis, who painted this picture ...
Gladys R. Davis outside Paris August 1944

Gladys Rockmore Davis

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Kansans of the Great War Era: Peggy Hull – Kansas WW1
Peggy Hull as a WarCo in WWI
Peggy Deuell

Peggy Hull Deuell

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Oct 4. 1943 Londonderry Marine Detachment Lt. Micheal Hines of Kewanna Indianna and Miss Peggy Diggins. "Corporal Mike" is the goat mascot
1943 - Portrait of American war correspondent and photographer Peggy Diggins with her camera in front of a US aircraft, September 1943.
World War Two, 1943, England, American war correspondant and photographer Peggy Diggins taking a picture of sone US airmen and fighter pilots

Peggy Diggins

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Percy and Barbara Finch of Reuters News Agency, one of the best known husband and wife war correspondent combinations, at the Commander in Chief Advanced Headquarters in Guam, Marianas, just before returning to the States on leave. (Photo by Jerome Zerbe from the collection of the National Archives and Records Administration)
Time around the world is kept by these four clocks hanging in the correspondents’ work room of the Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet public relations headquarters on Guam. Enjoying a cup of coffee are (left to right) Bruce Rae, New York Times; Barbara Finch, Reuters and Joseph Bors, International News Service. (Photo from the collection of the National Archives and Records Administration)

Barbara Miller Finch

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Janet Flanner c. 1944- Women Come to the Front | Exhibitions (Library of Congress)
Janet Flanner and Ernest Hemmingway Paris 1945 Memories of Literary Paris | The New Yorker

Janet Flanner

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One of Fleeson's reports from WWII.
News Photo : Frontline Newswoman. Doris Fleeson, Itally 1943
Mar. 28 1940, John O'Donnell and Doris Fleeson, Daily News correspondents who have been covering the war and Europe in general return to US. Photo shows them talking with Summer Welles, with whom they were fellow passengers.

Doris Fleeson

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March 1945. "Tuskegee Airmen series. 'Escape kits' (cyanide) being distributed to fighter pilots at air base in Ramitelli, Italy." Theodore G. Lumpkin Jr., seated, with (L-R): Joseph L. "Joe" Chineworth, Memphis, Class 44-E; Robert C. Robinson, Asheville, Class 44-G; Driskell B. Ponder, Chicago, 43-I; Robert W. Williams, Ottumwa, Iowa, 44-E. Gelatin silver print by Toni Frissell.
Toni Frissell in Red Cross Uniform, 1942.
Tomi Frissell's ID Card

Toni Frissell

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War correspondent Martha Gellhorn, center, talks to Native American soldiers on the Cassino Front in Italy in 1944.
Martha Gellhorn with troops at Cassino in February 1944.

Martha Gellhorn

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July 1945 LT Huggins, interpreter, CDR DeVos, CO Murray and Hazel Hartzog(UP) CDR White at press interview.
Ens. Jane Kendeigh (left) at a press conference at NAS Honolulu with Lucy Jamison, of KSU Radio and Hazel Hartzog of United Press. (Photo from the collection of the National Archives and Records Administration)

Hazel Hartzog

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Marguerite Higgins buckling helmet c. 1945 Germany

Marguerite Higgins

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Clare Hollingworth's passport
Clare Hollingworth in uniform, date unk.
In 1939 Hollingworth obtained the use of a British consular car, which enabled her to cross the border into Germany

Clare Hollingworth

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War correspondents Mel Jacoby and Annalee Whitmore, the subject of the new book "Eve Of A Hundred Midnights"
Portrait of married American war correspondents Melville (1917 - 1942) and Annalee Jacoby (nee Whitmore and later Fadiman, 1916 - 2002) as they stand in a boat, 1942.

Annalee Jacoby

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Helen Kirkpatrick Milbank - Portrait 1944
Helen Kirkpatrick Milbank - Portrait 1942
Helen Kirkpatrick

Helen Kirkpatrick

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1941 American writer, journalist and feminist Dorothy Thompson (1894 - 1961) chats to an ambulance driver on a bench in London.
News Photo : Dorothy Thompson working on a radio broadcast.
Political journalist and commentator Dorothy Thompson Kopf (1894 - 1961) at her typewriter. She married writer Sinclair Lewis in 1928 and Maxim Kopf in 1943.

Dorothy Thompson Knopf

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Irene Corbally Kuhn - Engineering and Technology History Wiki
Irene Kuhn in Correspondent's uniform
Irene Kuhn with Mountbatten at 1941 overseas press club luncheon

Irene Kuhn

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LeeMiller - 4410 |     1944 Alsace france
LeeMiller - 4653 |   1945 Torgau Germany
LeeMiller - 4415 | St. Malo 1944

Lee Miller

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Martha Sawyers Recruitment poster
Martha Sawyers relief poster
ILLUSTRATION ART: MARTHA SAWYERS (1902-1988)

Martha Sawyer(s)

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Ruth Robertson--War correspondent with Speed Graphic Alaska 1945

Ruth Robertson

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1934--Sigrid Schultz, William Dodd, and Joseph Goebbels
Sigrid Schultz, War Correspondent [NOT 1930] probably c. 1944

Sigrid Schultz

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