Lee Miller was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1904. She was trained to use a camera at a young age by her father who was an amateur photographer and an engineer. In 1927 she moved to New York and worked as a model for Edward Steichen. Then in 1942 she became a war correspondent for the United States in the European Theater. Miller was there for the liberation of France and she was there when the United States Army and the Red Army met at the Elbe River for the first time. At the end of the war, Miller returned to Great Britain and continued to work as a photographer. She died in Chiddingly, Sussex, in 1977.
George Rodger
George Rodger was born in 1908, in Hale, Cheshire. He went to school at St. Bedes College in 1921 and then served in the British Merchant Navy up until 1929. Rodger then moved to the United States to try and become a photographer. He was unsuccessful until 1936 when BBC hired him. In 1939, he worked at Life Magazine and photographed the Blitz and then moved on the North Africa. He also photographed Burma, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and he was the first Allied photographer to enter the Belsen concentration camp. After the war he continued his photography and then died in 1995.