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 ...

She became the first woman to report from the front of Iwo Jima.” Chapelle did humanitarian work in the 1950s across Eastern Europe — gaining “a clear understanding of the totality of war ...

She snapped combat pictures on a ridge at Iwo Jima while bullets sprayed around her. She cracked up in a Jeep under mortar fire in Cuba. She was threatened with hanging in a Communist prison in ...

Dickey Chapelle’s first chance to report on military maneuvers came in 1942, ... She soon elbowed her way to Pearl Harbor, and then to Iwo Jima, where she covered the Marines in battle.

Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...