{"id":55938,"date":"2014-10-21T12:31:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55938"},"modified":"2014-10-21T12:31:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:31:51","slug":"dickey-chapelle-to-be-inducted-into-milwaukee-press-club-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55938","title":{"rendered":"Dickey Chapelle to be inducted into Milwaukee Press Club Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dickey<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Someone sent us this link from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<\/a> last night on Facebook about the female photojournalist Dickey Chapelle. I’d never heard of her before now, but I guess she was kind of a big deal through the war years from World War II until she died in Vietnam, when she was on patrol with Marines and the fellow in front of her triggered a mine.<\/p>\n

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary next year of Chapelle’s death, the Milwaukee Press Club is inducting her into its hall of fame on Oct. 24. A book of her photos will be published next spring by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. A playwright in California is writing a play about her. The Milwaukee Press Club is working with University of Wisconsin graduate students on a project to track down military members and journalists who interacted with Chapelle.<\/p>\n

Chapelle put herself into harm’s way over and over, covering the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa during World War II, and traveling to Algeria, Panama, Lebanon, Hungary, Cuba and Vietnam on assignment for National Geographic, Cosmopolitan, National Observer and other publications. She was captured by Russians while covering the uprising in Hungary in 1956 and held for 52 days, writing an article for Reader’s Digest about spending Christmas in a Hungarian prison.<\/p>\n

Born in Milwaukee, Georgette Meyer began calling herself Dickey because she admired polar explorer Admiral Richard Byrd, whose nickname was Dickey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m kind of embarrassed that I’d never heard of her, but I am glad I read about her in this article. I recognize some of the photos at the link, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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