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, 1965.

Dickey Chapelle was one of history's most fearless ... Dickey became the second woman awarded the George Polk Memorial ... a Marine search-and-destroy mission near the coastal city of Chu Lai.

"First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, ... On Nov. 4, 1965, Chapelle was to accompany a U.S. Marine Corp. unit on patrol in Chu Lai, near Da Nang.

When mortar shell shrapnel exploded from a booby trap that hit Marines close to Chu Lai, ... Wisconsin native Georgette “Dickey” Chapelle was the first female war correspondent to die in combat.