Dickey Chapelle was one of history's most fearless conflict journalists—and the first ... She’d been called “the polite little American with all that tiger blood in her veins” by ...

In 1959 Dickey Chapelle prepared to leap off a tower. ... Fidel Castro called her “the polite little American with all that tiger blood in her veins.” ...

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 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, one of the first female war photographers, ... Though the incident jolted her, being on the front lines was in her blood. That same year she returned to work, ...

John Garofolo is the author of Dickey Chapelle Under Fire, and will be talking about Chapelle’s work Thursday evening at the Shorewood Village Center. Tags. books visual arts Lake Effect.

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 ...

Warner Bros. and Plan B will develop the story of war photographer Dickey Chapelle as a star vehicle for Jennifer Aniston. Chapelle, a blonde, blue-eyed beauty who covered WWII for Look magazine ...

Wisconsin native Dickey Chapelle was 47 when she was killed by shrapnel from an exploding land mine while covering the Vietnam War in 1965. She also covered the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa ...

Dickey Chapelle was actually born Georgette Louise Marie Meyer on March 14th, 1919, named after her aunt. She was the first child born to Paul Gerhard Meyer and Edna Englehardt-Meyer, both of rich ...

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 ...

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