U.S. Marine Corps chaplain John Monamara of Boston administers the last rites to war correspondent Dickey Chapelle
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The night before her death, she had dinner with Lt. Gen. Lewis Walt,
Marine Commander in Vietnam, Garofolo said, and “told him that when she
dies, she wanted to be on patrol with the Marines.”
When mortar shell shrapnel exploded from a booby trap that hit Marines
close to Chu Lai, Vietnam, a combat photographer was near the front.
A civilian buried with full military honors, Wisconsin native
Georgette “Dickey” Chapelle was the first female war correspondent to
die in combat.
Recently she was celebrated with the title of honorary Marine at the
United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association banquet in
San Diego. In October 2016, Commandant Gen. Robert Neller approved the
title for the award-winning war correspondent.
She was a five-foot-tall trailblazer who covered conflicts from World War II, to the Cold War, and finally, to Vietnam.
A writer and photographer, Chapelle’s photos had been featured on the
covers and pages of Life, National Observer, Cosmopolitan, Reader’s
Digest and National Geographic magazines.
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