Ja, den fullträffen var inte så full!
Att det var Martha Gellhorn som - as the story goes - hoppade på ett "hospital ship", och så var med om landningen på Omaha Beach, det var tidigt klart. Men, som du skriver, det var helt säkert inte med USS SAMARITAN, som under 2 VK nämligen befann sig i pacifiska vatten!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Samaritan_(AH-10)
Varifrån fick jag då namnet Samaritan? I den här artikeln -
https://medium.com/@stevenewman.newman/ ... 8c54000e1- om Martha Gellhorns D-Day äventyr visas en bild just på USS SAMARITAN, utan namn men i direkt artikelsammanhang...
Historien har emellertid en annan, fascinerande sida: USS SAMARITAN var som sagt stationerad i Stilla Havet mesta tiden under kriget, och var också med om fighterna vid Iwo Jima, och tro't om ni vill, men där, på det hospitalskeppet befann sig
också en kvinnlig US-krigsreporter! Nej, inte Gellhorn, utan Dickey Chapelle, en krigsfotograf, som på Iwo Jima gjorde det som Marta Gellhorn ett par månader senare gjorde på Omaha Beach...
"The exploration of what the front line was is really exemplified to me in this story of Dickey Chapelle. She was really good at wrangling piecemeal. (Covering Iwo Jima), she was on the U.S.S. Samaritan (a hospital ship), and she was supposed to stay on there. And then she found somebody and asked to be taken ashore. They said okay, even though the top brass was telling her she couldn't get off the boat. Then she wrangled a drive in a jeep, which the women were not permitted to do. She finally gets this sergeant to take her to the front line. This is the professional imperative: You go to the front line. It shows you are a real war reporter. So she gets to this place, and the sergeant says: 'This is the front line.' And she gets out and runs up the top of this dune on Iwo Jima, and it's just sand as far as she can. She's really confused. 'Here I am, and it looks like nothing.' So she starts bracketing her shots and does this series of photographs, 360 degrees around. Meanwhile, she's swatting at all these wasps buzzing by her head. She comes down 10 minutes later and this sergeant starts screaming at her. 'What the fuck were you doing?! I've never seen anything like that in my life. Don't you realize you were standing on the front lines and you were being shot at from both sides?!'
https://thetyee.ca/ArtsAndCulture/2012/ ... print.html
Så, än så länge kan jag inte bjuda på namnet på Gellhorns fartyg...
Fråga kommer.
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