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In his lifetime, he won four Tony Awards and three Oscars for costume design and art direction. He was a major force in ballet and the opera, and a master photographic portraitists of England’s royals. But equally powerful, if much less known, were his photos from World War II, made when he covered the conflict in England and abroad for Winston Churchill’s Ministry of Information. One photograph, in particular, cemented Beaton’s reputation as a man capable of chronicling terror as well as beauty. Well over a year before the U.S. entered the war, and as Britain was the lone holdout in Europe against the Third Reich’s juggernaut, a Beaton picture of a young girl named Eileen Dunne graced the cover of LIFE magazine. This deeply sympathetic photograph was as powerful a piece of visual propaganda as any made during those years, and commanded Americans to take a keener interest in a war that, at that stage, still felt very far away. The delicate touch that Beaton applied to his most graceful royal portraits is clearly at work here, as well, in this portrait of an innocent victim of the Blitz. But perhaps LIFE described the picture best, in its Sept. 23, 1940, issue: --- > “” --- “England’s crack society photographer,” as LIFE described Beaton, would go on to photograph five more LIFE covers in the 1940s and ‘50s, mostly of the royal variety, and his work would appear in the magazine’s pages scores of times through the years. --- _Liz Ronk is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her_ [_@LizabethRonk_](https://twitter.com/LizabethRonk)_._  Expatriate men have been targeted by female thieves in bars in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong LIFE Magazine  Three-year-old Eileen Dunne, a victim of the London Blitz, in hospital, 1940. 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