"Photojournalist Dickey Chapelle was wearing combat boots, a bush hat and her signature pearl earrings when she was hit by shrapnel from a Viet Cong land mine near Chu Lai Air Base on Nov. 4, 1965. She was the first female American war correspondent to be killed in action. ""When I die, I want it to be on patrol with the United States Marines,"" she'd once said. Her last words were, reportedly, ""I guess it was bound to happen."""
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