Dickey Chapelle: First Female Photojournalist Killed in Action
From Iwo Jima to Vietnam, Dickey Chapelle would follow the U.S. Marines with her camera, Ka-Bar and courage, up until her fateful last assignment.
Here's What You Need to Know: Chapelle died with the people she cared about the most—“her Marines.”
Colonel H.B. Miller, a Marine public relations officer on Guam during World War II, looked up from his desk to see before him a boyish-looking woman dressed in a baggy khaki shirt and pants and wearing horn-rimmed glasses. She introduced herself as Dickie Chapelle from Fawcett Publications and asked for permission to “go as far forward as you will let me.” Impressed by her persistence, Miller said that she could board the USS