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janice6 Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 (edited) 5 hours ago, pipedreams said: Third picture: Huh! 70 years later and women are wearing the same style shoes and calling them "The latest fashion". Edited October 31, 2018 by janice6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWguy Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 My grandpa got a few pics of the locals when he defeated the fascists in Italy. A couple were of the local womenfolk... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MrKandiyohi Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 I've never seen the US helmet with a hinged visor - especially one with a knight's visor emblem. Was it to allow the person to wear a cap underneath the helmet or was it for a specific unit? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 (edited) 27 minutes ago, MrKandiyohi said: I've never seen the US helmet with a hinged visor - especially one with a knight's visor emblem. Was it to allow the person to wear a cap underneath the helmet or was it for a specific unit? As a war correspondent she was likely a civilian and had that custom made. Just a guess. There were military war correspondents as well. Edited October 31, 2018 by Historian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted October 31, 2018 Author Share Posted October 31, 2018 3 minutes ago, Historian said: As a war correspondent she was likely a civilian and had that custom made. Just a guess. There were military war correspondents as well. That caught my eye too, don't think it can come down over the face. She also has a button problem with her left shoulder tab. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BMyers Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 Found it on a website: Unknown photographer, “Lee Miller in steel helmet specially designed for using a camera, Normandy, France 1944” (© The Penrose Collection, England 2015) https://hyperallergic.com/290282/lee-millers-photographs-frame-the-women-of-world-war-ii/ 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted October 31, 2018 Author Share Posted October 31, 2018 1 minute ago, BMyers said: Found it on a website: Unknown photographer, “Lee Miller in steel helmet specially designed for using a camera, Normandy, France 1944” (© The Penrose Collection, England 2015) https://hyperallergic.com/290282/lee-millers-photographs-frame-the-women-of-world-war-ii/ Didn't think about that but if it flips up she could get the camera up to her eye to focus. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 2 minutes ago, pipedreams said: Didn't think about that but if it flips up she could get the camera up to her eye to focus. Lol. She had spunk. Click. the great link and the last picture is of her in Hitler's bath tub. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 I keep looking at the photos and think I need the book. She had quite a vision with her camera. Not enough is written about women in the war. I have close to 500 books on the topic and yet have only a few by women. One belongs to my wife and is about women in nursing and as doctors in the war. One of the more interesting passages occurs after the war when a nurse tried to join the vfw. The said no. Until they saw she earned a Purple Heart. Then there was no argument. Honestly, I figure I have 30 years before I become history and i will never run out of interesting things to read about this time period. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted October 31, 2018 Author Share Posted October 31, 2018 Miller had a interesting life with many turns and pit falls. The link has a lot about her life. "By 1943 Miller had become an accredited war correspondent for Vogue, and the following year she teamed up with Life photojournalist David E. Scherman. Together they followed the 83rd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army as it advanced on the front lines. Miller became the first female photojournalist to do so. She photographed the Liberation of Paris, the battle of Saint-Malo, field hospitals in Normandy, and the liberation of both the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. Her photographs, some of the first photographic evidence of the Holocaust, were a horrifying glimpse of the atrocities committed by the Nazis in the camps. From Dachau she and Scherman went to Hitler’s private apartment in Munich. She had Scherman photograph her washing herself in Hitler’s bathtub, her muddy boots on the bathmat. In 1945 Miller traveled throughout eastern Europe to see and photograph the devastating aftermath of the war." https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Miller 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 (edited) She was lucky I didn't get to Hitler's bath room first. I'd have taken a dump in Der fuhrer's crapper and the apartment would be considered bombed and destroyed. Turned into a wasteland. Take that Adolf. Edited October 31, 2018 by Historian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M&P15T Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 While we're on the topic, I just finished watching "Doodlebug Summer", on Amazon Prime. It discusses that women maned AAA pieces on the British coast, but kept it secret. It's a good series, check it out. https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07DQ3BR39 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrKandiyohi Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 Thanks for the answer. It makes sense, Someone just had a little fun with the knight's visor emblem. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Walt Longmire Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 On 10/31/2018 at 5:16 AM, M&P15T said: While we're on the topic, I just finished watching "Doodlebug Summer", on Amazon Prime. It discusses that women maned AAA pieces on the British coast, but kept it secret. It's a good series, check it out. https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07DQ3BR39 My uncles B17 was shot up badly by flak on a mission over Maribor Yu, late in the war. They claimed the AA guns were manned by German women. The guns were way up in the mountains and so closer to the planes. They made 3 passes over the target before they were able to drop their bombs. The AA was particularly deadly by that 3rd pass. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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