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WW2 Women on the Frontline
Boots on The Ground
Season 1
Episode 103
The little-known feats of journalists, nurses, and guerilla fighters take center stage. Female war correspondents were kept from the frontline, but two brave American reporters broke the rules. Martha Gellhorn stowed away on a hospital ship and landed on Omaha Beach, and Lee Miller, a former model-turned-photojournalist, documented the horrors of Dachau.
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