That was the day photojournalist Dickey Chapelle came home from war to be buried in a family plot at Forest Home cemetery in Milwaukee. She was killed Nov. 4, 1965, while on a patrol with a US Marine ...

As slim as Dickey Chapelle had become, she was big on guts and tenacity. ... Her remains are buried at Forest Home Cemetery on Milwaukee's south side in the Meyer-Engelhardt family plot.

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 ...

A civilian buried with full military ­honors, Wisconsin native Georgette “Dickey” Chapelle was the first female war correspondent to die in combat.

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 ...

Hear Dickey Chapelle In this Overseas Press Club broadcast from 1964, Chapelle discusses her experiences documenting some of the "toughest" stories in the world. And she did.

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.

Castro, who ruled Cuba for nearly 50 years, died Nov. 25 at age 90. When Chapelle returned to Milwaukee in April 1959 to visit her aunt, she stopped at The Milwaukee Journal offices for an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last year, Lake Effect introduced you to John Garofolo, the editor of a collection of photos by the late war photographer and Shorewood native, Dickey Chapelle. Chapelle was the first US female ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) - The photographer believed to be the first female American journalist killed in a war has become an honorary Marine. Wisconsin native Dickey Chapelle was 47 when she was killed by ...