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04/11/2016 GMT

War Photographer, Dickey Chapelle

BBC World Service - Witness History, War Photographer, Dickey Chapelle

Photographer Dickey Chapelle was the first woman war reporter to be killed in Vietnam

The photojournalist, Dickey Chapelle, was the first American woman war reporter to be killed in action when she was struck by shrapnel in Vietnam in November 1965.

On 4 November 1965, the American war photographer, Dickey Chapelle, was killed in Vietnam by shrapnel from a booby-trapped mortar. She was the first American woman war reporter to be killed in action, and had made her name covering many of the 20th Century's greatest conflicts at a time when war reporting was almost exclusively the domain of men.

(Photo: Dickey Chapelle taking photos during a US Marines operation in 1958. Credit: US Marine Corps/Associated Press)

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