American journalists Helen Kirkpatrick ... RFI / Ollia Horton There were many female war correspondents – around 200 of the 500 correspondents reporting on the Normandy landings were women ...

A young French-British journalist was chosen, in extremis, to replace them. Her name was Marcelle Poirier but despite being de Gaulle's official reporter and AFP's first female war correspondent ...

which in 2023 devoted an exhibition to the journalists who covered the Normandy Landings. "So I took out my phone and showed her the photo of Poirier from the book and asked her if she was in the ...