Distinguished Service Award (DSA) in August 2015. In 2017, Chapelle was declared an honorary Marine at the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association's annual dinner. Chapelle is commemorated by the 2001 Nanci Griffith song Pearl's Eye View (The Life of Dickey Chapelle) from the album Clock Without Hands. In February, 1992, the first biography of Chapelle, Fire in the Wind: The Life of Dickey Chappelle, by Roberta Ostroff, was published by Ballantine Books. In July, 2023, another biography of Chapelle, First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent, by Lorissa Rinehart, will be published by St. Martin's Press. Publications Books Needed: Women in Government Service (as Dickey Meyer). New York: R. M. McBride (1942). . Girls at Work in Aviation (as Dickey Meyer). New York: Doubleday, Doran (1943). . How Planes Get There. Young America's Aviation Library. New York: Harper (1944). . What's a Woman Doing Here?: A Reporter's Report on Herself. Young America's Aviation Library. New York: William Morrow and Company (1962). Contributions "How Castro Won" (1962). In: Osanka, Franklin Mark, and Samuel P. Eluntington (1962). Modern Guerrilla Warfare: Fighting Communist Guerrilla Movements, 1941-1961. New York: Free Press of Glencoe. pp. 325–335. See also List of journalists killed and missing in the Vietnam War References External links Biography Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965: Female War Correspondent Dickey Chapelle Archive - Papers, Photographs and Negatives 1933-1967 1918 births 1965 deaths American war correspondents of the Vietnam War American photojournalists War photographers killed while covering the Vietnam War Landmine victims Artists from Milwaukee Writers from New York (state) Writers from Milwaukee American women civilians in World War II American women in the Vietnam War Women in war in East Asia Women in warfare post-1945 Women war correspondents 20th-century American women writers American women non-fiction writers 20th-century American women photographers 20th-century American photographers Shorewood High School (Wisconsin) alumni Women photojournalists