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 ... A Marine Guard files ...

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 ...

Dickey Chapelle was one of history's most fearless conflict journalists—and the first American woman to ... She’d been working as a war correspondent since 1942 and had reported on dozens of ...

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 ...

Dickey Chapelle Under Fire: Photographs by the First American Female War Correspondent Killed in Action showcases not only her work, but Chapelle's personal work ethic.

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 ...

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On 4 November 1965, the American war photographer, Dickey Chapelle, was killed in Vietnam by shrapnel from a booby-trapped mortar. She was the first American woman war reporter to be killed in ...

First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent Lorissa Rinehart. St. Martin’s, $32 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-27657-5 ...

Chaucer's Books, 3321 State St., will host local author Lorissa Rinehart for an in-store discussion with noted podcaster Joe Coohill (Professor ...