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Helicopter Cockpit

Date: 06 1962
Description: Helicopter cockpit showing the pilot's view of the Vietnamese Delta region below. This photograph was taken by Milwaukee freelance photographer Dickey Chap...
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Dickey Chapelle

Date: 1940
Description: "She's Ready to Defend America," a portrait of Georgette Louise Meyer (aka Dickey Chapelle), as a member of the Women Flyers of America, an organization fo...
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Paratrooper Training

Date: 07 1963
Description: A view of special forces training taken by freelance photographer Dickey Chapelle inside a C-47 transport plane. The photograph shows the preparations for ...
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Vietnam Helicopter Mission

Date: 06 1962
Description: A photograph taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle on board a helicopter that was enroute to Vinh Quoi in the Delta Region of South Vietnam. The ...
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Dickey Chapelle with Special Forces Group

Date: 06 1963
Description: Dickey Chapelle receives a last minute pre-jump inspection from the 5th Special Forces Group.
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Dickey Chapelle with a Pilot

Date: 1939
Description: Dickey Chapelle, in a helmet and goggles, poses next to another pilot in front of an airplane.
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Dickey Chapelle with an Airplane

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Description: Dickey Chapelle getting into a small airplane. She is wearing a pilot's helmet, goggles and a scarf, and is carrying a parachute.
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USS Relief Surgery

Date: 04 1945
Description: View of the gloved hands of a pair of surgeons as they begin to operate on a patient in Japan. One person is holding a scalpel over a portion of an exposed...
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Flight Nurses during Aquatic Training

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Description: Six female flight nurses posing outdoors. The women are wearing bathing suits and holding life vests around their necks at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip d...
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Flight Nurses in Training Pool

Date: 1943
Description: Six female flight nurses in a swimming pool during aquatic training at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip. Four of the women are in a raft, and two women are i...
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Crewman Aboard Freighter

Date: 06 1942
Description: A crew member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta looking over the side of the freighter at the Caribbean Sea and the clouds. The man is ...
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Nurse Sleeping

Date: 04 1945
Description: A nurse sleeping at battle stations aboard the USS Relief in the China Sea. The nurse is wearing a jumpsuit and has a piece of cloth tied in her hai...
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Flight Nurse with Patient in Anoxic Chamber

Date: 1945
Description: A flight nurse in an anoxic faint chamber, used to simulate high altitude flying with little oxygen, placing an oxygen mask over a male patient's face. He ...
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Waiting at Luang Prabang Airport

Date: 05 1961
Description: A small group of refugees wait with luggage under an awning at Luang Prabang airport, Laos. An armed soldier stands behind them on the right. There is a tr...
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Helicopter and Plane, Luang Prabang Airport

Date: 05 1961
Description: Two men stand next to a military helicopter at Luang Prabang airport, Laos. A silver plane is just taking off in the background.
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Damaged Building, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Building damaged by Viet Cong in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam. The pink building seems to have lost its roof and there is debris strewn about the yard. There are men...
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Soldiers and Residents, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Vinh Quoi, Vietnam, in the aftermath of a Viet Cong attack. There is a burned-out building in the background. A male resident is sitting on a downed fence ...
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Helicopter Gunner

Date: 1962
Description: Portrait of a helicopter gunner at his gun in an H-21 Army helicopter in the mountain region of Vietnam.
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River Crossing to Outpost

Date: 06 1962
Description: U.S. Army advisor Major M.C. Curley and soldiers crossing a river in the delta region of Vietnam in a small boat to visit an outpost. A large building, a m...
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Helicopter Evacuation of Wounded

Date: 1962
Description: U.S. helicopter evacuation of wounded Vietnamese fighter to hospital including treatment by U.S. service medics and corpsmen. A man with a bandaged head i...

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