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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 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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Chapelle in Vietnam

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

Date: 06 1962
Description: Distant view of U.S helicopters over the Delta Region of South Vietnam taken by Dickey Chapelle, a freelance photographer from Milwaukee.
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Dickey Chapelle Receiving Polk Award

Date: 04 13 1962
Description: Dickey Chapelle receiving the George Polk Memorial Award from William Lawrence of The New York Times at the Waldorf Astoria.
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Dickey Chapelle Prepares for a Jump

Date: 1963
Description: Dickey Chapelle being outfitted with a parachute in preparation for a jump from a plane at Fort Bragg.
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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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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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CH-34A Helicoper

Date: 1963
Description: A photograph by freelance photographer Dickey Chapelle of several Sikorsky CH-34A helicopters taken somewhere in South Vietnam. Because these heavy lifting...
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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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Wounded South Vietnamese Soldier

Date: 1961
Description: Soldier assisting a wounded South Vietnamese soldier.
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Marines with a Helicopter

Date: 1960
Description: Marines running out of a helicopter in Vietnam.
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Ban Hat Bay

Date: 1961
Description: Personnel on the mortar fire mission move toward the site in New Man's Land from which they'll fire. Laos.
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Captain Jeffers in South Vietnam

Date: 1961
Description: United States advisor Captain Jeffers has a meal with six Vietnamese men.
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Helicopter in Binh Mung

Date: 1961
Description: Little boys watch the arrival of a helicopter over Binh Mung village in Vietnam.
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Chapelle Selfie

Date: 1962
Description: Dickie Chapelle self-portrait in Vietnam. A shot we would currently call a "selfie." She is outdoors and wears a hat and smokes a cigarette.
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Communication Line at Guatanamo

Date: 1960
Description: Soldier at a field call box in Guantanamo, Cuba.
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Vietnmese Marines with a Radio

Date: 1961
Description: South Vietnamese Marines operating a radio in the field.
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Vietnamese Training

Date: 06 1962
Description: Training exercise for South Vietnamese soldiers in helicopter deployment. This photograph of the early stages of American involvement in the war in Vietna...
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Flying Bananas

Date: 06 1962
Description: A U.S. Army Piasecki CH21-C helicopter operating at a newly cut drop zone strip near the Laotian border to resupply Vietnamese troops. Because of the two r...

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