The first American female war correspondent killed in action battled sexism through her life
WRITTEN BY Neha Thirani Bagri
Georgette Dickey Chapelle, a freelance photojournalist and the first American female war correspondent to be killed in action, was a trailblazer. She overcame gender discrimination in her personal and professional life to become one of the very first women on the front lines of war, and one of the most important war photographers of the 20th century.
Dickey Chapelle Under Fire, a new book by Iraq War veteran and former US Coast Guard Academy professor John Garafolo, explores Chapelle’s work and life through the incredible photographs she took, many of which were once published in National Geographic, Life, and other magazines.
The title of the book comes from a dateline Chapelle wrote from the battlefield of Iwo Jima in 1945. “It was dawn before I fell asleep, and later in the morning
I was only half-awake as I fed a fresh sheet of paper into the typewriter and began to copy the notes from the previous day out of my book,” Chapelle writes of that day. “But I wasn’t too weary to type the date line firmly
as if I’d been writing datelines all my life: ‘From the front at iwo jima march 5’—then I remembered and added two words: ‘under fire’—They looked great.”
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