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 ...

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

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 ...

Dickey Chapelle was actually born Georgette Louise Marie Meyer on March 14th, ... Her remains are buried at Forest Home Cemetery on Milwaukee's south side in the Meyer-Engelhardt family plot.

Dickey Chapelle takes a photograph while covering a Marine Corps operation on the shore of Lake Michigan in 1958. In 2017, more than a half century after her death, she was named 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 ...

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 ...

Dickey Chapelle, one of the first female war photographers, risked her life to capture history on world stages from Iwo Jima to the Vietnam War. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

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 ...

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