Photographer
Lee Miller
Lee Miller was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1904. Her father was an engineer and an amateur photographer and trained her to use the camera at an early age. In 1942 Miller became an official war correspondent for U.S. forces in Europe. She accompanied Allied troops during the liberation of France and photographed the scenes when the Red Army and the U.S army joined up for the first time on the Elbe River. Miller was also with the troops when they liberated Buchenwald and Dachau.
At the end of the war Miller returned to England where she continued to work as a freelance journalist and photographer. Lee Miller died in Chidingly, Sussex, in 1977. ZH |
Service Two George Rodger was born in Hale Cheshire in 1908. After studying at St. Bedes College 1921- 1925 he served in the British Merchant Navy until l 1929. In 1939 Rodger was recruited to the staff of Life Magazine and during the Second World War he photographed the Blitz before joining the Allied forces in North Africa, Burma, Sicily Italy, France and Belgium and Germany. In April 1945 Rodger was the first Allied photographer to enter Belsen concentration camp
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