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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Dickey Chapelle in Vietnam

Date: 11 1964
Description: Dickey Chapelle on the Don Phuc command post, in front of a stack of sandbags, on the Vietnam-Cambodia frontier. Chapelle resided at this post for 34 days,...
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WWII Red Cross Worker

Date: 03 1945
Description: Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross worker, serves coffee in the interrogation room at Kobler Field, Saipan, for a B-29 flight crew that had just returned from a b...
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Flight Nurse and Wounded

Date: 03 1945
Description: At Iwo Jima Airfield #1 Gwen Jensen, a flight nurse, talks with wounded Marines who are about to be evacuated by airplane. Mount Surabachi, from which the ...
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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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Chapelle and FLN Rebels

Date: 1957
Description: Dickey Chapelle sits and drinks coffee with the FLN Scorpion Battalion Rebels in the Atlas Mountains in Algeria.
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Dickey Chapelle Photographs Training Exercise

Date: 1955
Description: Dickey Chapelle crouches on the ground as she takes a photograph of a Marine at the San Diego Recruit Depot.
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Chapelle Photographs Marines

Date: 1955
Description: Front view of Dickey Chapelle shooting photographs of two Marines, who are shown from the back.
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Doctor with Refugee Child in Algeria

Date: 08 1957
Description: A Red Crescent doctor is holding an Algerian refugee child who survived a French air attack that killed eighteen people. Behind them is a shepherd's daught...
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Chapelle with Algerians

Date: 1957
Description: Dickey Chapelle sitting with the FLN Scorpion Battalion Rebels in the Atlas Mountains in Algeria drinking tea.
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Chapelle with Arm Band

Date: 03 1942
Description: Dickey Chapelle seated by an open window, wearing the correspondent arm band. Taken at time of her first recognition by the War Department as Look's...
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Dickey and Tony Chapelle

Date: 1950
Description: Dickey Meyer Chapelle poses with her husband Tony Chapelle next to a vehicle.
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Dickey Chapelle and Leo Cherne

Date: 09 21 1962
Description: Dickey Chapelle poses with Leo Cherne outside the Hudson Institute.
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Dickey Chapelle and Aunt Louise

Date: 02 1957
Description: Dickey Chapelle and her Aunt Louise embrace at Idlewild Airport after Chapelle's return from Budapest, Hungary.
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Escape from Hungary to Austria

Date: 11 29 1956
Description: A woman in a headscarf crosses an improvised bridge in the vicinity of the village of Tamsweg, escaping from Hungary to Austria.
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Chapelle with Soldiers and Woman

Date: 1958
Description: Dickey Chapelle posing in Cuba with Major Antonio Lusson, and a group of male and female soldiers.
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Fidel Castro and Celia Sanchez

Date: 1958
Description: Fidel Castro is seated with his constant companion Celia Sanchez, and Vilma Espin, who sits to Castro's left. Cuba.
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Dickey Chapelle with Vilma Espin

Date: 1958
Description: Dickey Chapelle poses with Vilma Espin, who married Fidel Castro's brother Raul Castro. Also shown are two children (Espin and Castro's children?), and an ...
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Dickey Chapelle with Children

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Description: Dickey Chapelle, with cameras around her neck, poses with three women and a group of children.
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Chapelle in Vietnam

Date: 1962
Description: Dickey Chapelle dressed in military clothing wading through a swamp in Vietnam.

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