After they separated, Dickey took on both roles in Vietnam. In May 1962, Chapelle celebrated her 20th anniversary as a war correspondent by embedding with the helicopter units waging an aerial ...

Chapelle, a photojournalist, died Nov. 4, 1965, in Vietnam while on patrol with the US Marines. The Milwaukee Press Club held a memorial service in her honor on Nov. 12, the 50th anniversary of her ...

The 2015 book and film appeared 50 years after Dickey Chapelle was killed by shrapnel while out on patrol with a Marine platoon in Vietnam. Chapelle was buried a week later–Nov. 12, 1965–in ...

Shorewood native Dickey Chapelle, a photographer who died covering the Vietnam War, revered the Marines. And now she's one of them. An official certificate declaring Chapelle an honorary Marine ...

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 ...

Photographer Dickey Chapelle was covering a U.S. Marine unit on a combat operation in South Vietnam on Nov. 4, 1965 when she was killed by an exploding mine.

In 1965, photographer and writer Dickey Chapelle was killed in Vietnam, becoming the first female American journalist to be killed covering a war. In the new book, "Dickey Chapelle Under Fire ...

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/Archive of Modern Conflict (AMC) Collection. Photojournalists captured war’s most personal moments, the best and worst of human nature. ... The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago.

Some, like Dickey Chapelle, lost their lives documenting the war’s harsh truths. ... Click here to see 29 horrifying images of the Vietnam War. Keystone / Hulton Archive via Getty Images.

The life of Dickey Chapelle reads like a Hollywood movie. ... Instead, Chapelle was killed in 1965 while on a patrol with a Marine platoon in Vietnam and was soon forgotten.

There is a song — Nanci Griffith’s “Pearl’s Eye View” — about pioneering war photographer Dickey Chapelle, who was born Georgette Meyer in the Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood in 1919 ...