Dickey Chapelle was one of history's most fearless conflict journalists—and the first American woman to die on the job. Photographer Dickey Chapelle holds her equipment while on assignment in ...

Dickey Chapelle in 1958. Photo by Marine Master Sgt. Lew Lowery from Wisconsin Historical Images ID 1942. Terry Koper stood off to the side, a few feet from the grave, scribbling in his notebook as ...

Dickey Chapelle stood out and defied everyone's notion of what a war correspondent was. Clad in fatigues, an Australian bush hat, harlequin eyeglasses, a Leica camera slung around her shoulders ...

Georgette “Dickey” Chapelle ’39 had been a credentialed war correspondent for nearly three years before she finally got a chance to cover combat, in 1945. Sent to a hospital ship to take ...

In her eventful 47 years on Earth, Shorewood native Dickey Chapelle saw the World War II battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. She drove for weeks through the rubble and near-starvation of postwar ...

Dickey Chapelle was already a famed World War II correspondent when she got an assignment to interview and photograph the charismatic leader of a revolution. Which is how the Shorewood native met ...

MEGAN THOMPSON: Starting in the 1940s, Dickey Chapelle was one of America's first female photojournalists to go to war zones…from Panama to Vietnam. Life Magazine, National Geographic, and ...

Photojournalist Dickey Chapelle was wearing combat boots, a bush hat and her signature pearl earrings when she was hit by shrapnel from a Viet Cong land mine near Chu Lai Air Base on Nov. 4 ...

The woman was Dickey Chapelle, a female photojournalist on assignment for Life magazine. Moments later the man in front of her muttered, “I’m lost,” and an enemy flare blew out the Big ...

I first heard the name Dickey Chapelle in 2004. Jennifer Aniston was going to play her in a movie, with Aniston’s husband, Brad Pitt, producing. Reporting on the proposed film, Daily Variety ...

The life of Dickey Chapelle reads like a Hollywood movie. A pearl-earringed photojournalist and war correspondent confounds all stereotypes, breaking stories and outdoing the U.S. Marines in ...