Miss Bonney Reporting from the Arctic Front

• Main Author: Oinas-Kukkonen, Henry
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Fordham University Press 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Bonney; Mabel
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9781531503093.003.0004

Miss Thérèse Mabel Bonney, a well-educated American photojournalist, became a war correspondent through a long and unusual process. During the Finnish-Soviet Winter War (1939–1940), she served as a war correspondent on the Arctic front, where she found her photojournalistic style and made her first scoop. Her journey to the Artic front was the first of her documenting trips, later called “truth raids.” During the second truth raid, she returned to the Arctic front in 1942, but this time, she served as a roving agent for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) on a top-secret mission, undercover as a war correspondent. Her pictures spread from the press to exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic, highlighting her focus on depicting the distress and resilience of civilians—especially children—at war.