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Nonfiction Whiskey-voiced legend ... DICKEY CHAPELLE UNDER FIRE: Photographs by the First American Female War Correspondent Killed in Action 136 pp. Wisconsin Historical Society Press By John Garofolo Reviewed by William C. Crawford Dickey Chapelle was a woman and an intrepid, pioneer combat photographer. In many important ways she was like the Marines that she often followed into battle. She had a nose for the images of war, but her work also captured the human side. She died in 1965 before Vietnam became a lost cause for American forces. A Marine patrol she joined hit a booby trap south of Chu Lai. Flying shrapnel severed her carotid artery. Legendary combat photographer Henri Huet caught a poignant image of a chaplain administering last rites to Chapelle on the battlefield. Huet and other well known photographers would themselves later perish in a helicopter shot down over Laos in the waning days of the War. Dickey proved herself as a war correspondent during the later years of Worl...