"As a female war correspondent, Martha Gellhorn was not allowed to accompany the Allied invasion force .... and so, the night before the invasion, she finagled a spot on a hospital ship by telling military police she was there to interview nurses. Once aboard, Gellhorn found a bathroom, locked the door and hid until the ship was on its way to France on June 6, 1944."
"I had been sent to Europe to do my job, which was not to report the rear areas or the 'woman’s' angle.”
Even her treatment by military police after arrest was different.