Dickey Chapelle: First Female Photojournalist Killed in Action
Dickey Chapelle: First Female Photojournalist Killed in Action From Iwo Jima to Vietnam, Dickey Chapelle would follow the U.S. Marines with her camera, Ka-Bar and courage, up until her fateful last assignment. Here's What You Need to Know: Chapelle died with the people she cared about the most—“her Marines.” Colonel H.B. Miller, a Marine public relations officer on Guam during World War II, looked up from his desk to see before him a boyish-looking woman dressed in a baggy khaki shirt and pants and wearing horn-rimmed glasses. She introduced herself as Dickie Chapelle from Fawcett Publ...
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