![]() ![]() ![]() Must remain in England and file their stories from the invasion bases in theĭuring the next weeks, Lee suffered through several rounds of vaccinations and, On D-day, Lee and her women colleagues were told that they If they too belonged to an auxiliary corps, they were to stay behind the lines Nor were they assigned jeeps and drivers. SHAEF protocol did not allow them to travel alone or visit pressĬamps in a theater of operations. But newsworthy female journalists knew that they were unlikely to seeĬombat. Which the heroine’s calling placed her at odds with the promptings of her Hollywood churned out movies about “girl photographers”-romances in Life publicized the exploits of Bourke-White, who posed likeĪ film star in her flight gear after gaining permission to fly with the air force. Women journalists operated, even as they were becoming glamorous figures in Nearly sixty years later, it is hard to imagine the constraints under which Twenty-four hours later to find Lee preparing her own invasion. On June 6, 1944, D-day, the Allies invaded Normandy. A Lee Miller website has several collections of her photographs.Īn excerpt from Lee Miller A Life Carolyn Burke ![]()
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