Initially she worked as a freelance fashion photographer for Vogue fashion photographer, helping to keep morale up in a time of shortage. She used her initiative to take surrealist pictures of Blitz-torn London, which were collected into a book, ‘Grim Glory,’ published in London for the American market, for propaganda purposes.

In 1942 she pushed for, and got, accreditation as a US Army War Correspondent, which enabled her to take behind-the-scenes pictures of Wrens, and US soldiers in training, and the British Navy in port. Then came D-Day, and her big chance. Often as not she was on the front line: she photographed the first use of napalm in St Malo, assisted in the liberation of Paris, and was one of the first reporters to witness the horrors of Dachau. She was never able get the stench out of her nostrils.

“She had a very personal style,” says Tony. “She identified very strongly with the human level of what was going on. She talked to GI’s about what action was like, and civilians about what it was like to be liberated, what it was like to lose and be reunited with friends and family. There were many good writers on the war but I think hers has held up particularly well.” She was staying in what had been Hitler’s apartment in Munich the day the Germans surrendered, but that didn’t signal the end of Lee Miller’s war.