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Dickey Chapelle
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"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 formed in 1940 to teach women to fly and then to ferry American bombers to Great Britain.
1940
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965
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W012D73
WHi 11541
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Young Dickey Chapelle with Flight Goggles
1940
Portrait of Dickey Chapelle wearing a white shirt, white flight headgear and goggles.
Dickey Chapelle as a Young Girl
1934
Georgette Louise (Dickey) Meyer, the tall, bespectacled girl in the middle, salutes with five other children.
Chapelle in Military Uniform
circa 1940-1945
Studio portrait of Dickey Chapelle in uniform with a "war correspondent" patch on her sleeve.
Dickey Chapelle with Children
circa 1960-1965
Dickey Chapelle, with cameras around her neck, poses with three women and a group of children.
Young Dickey Chapelle
1938
A candid head and shoulders portrait of a young Dickey Chapelle without eyeglasses.
Portrait of Young Dickey Chapelle
1942
Three-quarter length portrait of a young Dickey Meyer Chapelle posing in front of a fireplace mantel wearing a blouse and dress pants.
