Selasa, 01 Maret 2016

A Combat Photographer’s Initiation on Iwo Jima

Georgette Louise “Dickey” Chapelle in 1942, when<br /> the War Department first recognized her as a<br /> correspondent, signified by the “C” armband.An excerpt from the memoir of Dickey Chapelle, the first female American war correspondent to be killed in action

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