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363-08336 to 363-08339.pdf
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Digital Object Identifier
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363-08336 to 363-08339
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Title
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Article about Dickey Chappelle
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Description
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Original title: N/A, Keever's title: N/A, Article draft about Dickey Chappelle, for the Overseas Press Club of America
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AI Usage Disclosure
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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Transcript
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Diebay Chappello had waited Vietnam three tidos to covor
the war from the copy nie poddion in the couth to the Junglod
"C7000 boll" in the north noor 1000.
Sho uno e favorite of the Vietnamese Airborne Bricode;
the thaillod tho lovlient Vietnamese privates and the highoot
racking conopals in the country by becoming the first commonpondont
to jump on combat operations with thon.
"Sho vesn't very pretty,"
one of the generals commented
thio wool. "But cho vao vozy courageous. I saw bor jap vith
the paratrooporo in Sayninh province (noar the Cambodia border)
vacso those voso alot of Viet Cong. She was really courageous."
As the Siect var componpondant to make the necessary covon
combat jumpo, cho added bos Viotnanoco cirborne ayabels to thoco
obo bod von your earlion with tho paratrooporo of Anorica and
Branco. She was an adoptod nombor of tho fanod 101st cod 02nd
Airborne Divisions of the U.0. Any and she not only jumpod
with thon but contimod tho battlos or training ozorcicoo on
the ground in the moot rumblo-tumblo airborne fashion.
It seemed fitting that on Novombor _ _ _ tho briefing
£ficos vas a paratrooper is told the Saigon Free Corn,
Po are caddened tonight to report..."
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"Dut Dickey's Sirot love uns always the Marines," ono of
hor admirore and old-tino friends reported. "It won't that
oho uno a Marine Corpo mascot or anything like that. She was
a Marino. and she'd go out on the biggest operations or
the little patrols with thon; oho had more combat osporionco
than the 116talost privates and alunge sought to protect thon.
Sho dug her own foxhole and built hop on giro to beat the
instant coffee in the most traditional Pacino Corpo fashion.
She oven carried how pack of cigarettes in the top of her cooks,
libo they did. She adopted their descriptivo four-lettos
language and cho could out-coo any of thon-but she usually
cavod those words for the general--0000 of the highost onoo
in the Anorican military octablishment case unlop firo of hor
tongue. Dozozo how last trip to Vietnam, sho intorvioved
Genorul
Cano (0.0. Marino Compo commandant) ia
Uashington. Elo prosentod hor an honorary globe and anchor
of the U.G. Harino Coupe.
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In mid-1962, Diel:oy bocano the first correspondent to
photograph in color the Vietnaneco war, which was asquiadtoly
published in the Hational Coosaphic. The article and photographo
Soatured the first U.S. llarino holicopter squadron in Vietnam,
which at that tino had just moved to the Holong Bolta toum
of Soc Trong. During the day noncon Soc Prang uno a plonnant
aloopy tons during the rainy cocoon it was minorable; and
that's whon Dickoy was thoro. Sho Marinoo, who had transformed
their "golf-contained" oquadroh from the forth were suboongod
in water; ovon vhon tont-to-tont boardwalks vore constructed
thoy too bocomo indulatod. Breakfast une usually in the rain,
about throo in the morning, long bofoto the dawn light
briofingo and thon tako-offo for combat missions.
"We could novon find Dickey anyuhoro," one of the Masinos
thon rominocco. "Sho would ont moale with the 'old man' (tho
commandor), but thon cho would walk all over this camp; usually
che uno talking with the onlisted mon. She always carried sis
cacosas around hor nooks and she photographed everything in sight.
"It was very oubarrucoing when oho first cano horo," tho
young larine recalled. "o had never had a woman down horo
bofozes vo didn't know how we would manage
Dickoy onid *Don't worry about it, sonny.
mysols. But then wo doviced a nou syston;
red flag on the outdoor latino, which moant
things for hoz.
1'11 tale of things
wo flow a little
Tonale Incido!
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309
three years later, on November
9
it was hardly
a surprise that her last patrol should be with the Marinos or that
the load on her laat ploce read, "I was today again out mity with
by Marines..."
When the nowe reached Danang, the U. S. Marine Corps
commanding general, Maj. Gen. Levin Walt immediately telephoned
the Marine Corps commandant in Washington; Saigon information
officers imediatoly tolophoned their superiors in Cache Tashingtong
the colonels and generals who had known her in Korea, in World
Tor Two talked about the nowe over dinners and ordered an extra
round of drinks.
This week, she was accompanied to the United States by aix
Marincean honor guard. She wont homo, as the CI's have a way
of explaining, "under a fifty-ster flag."
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Date
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Unknown
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B191, F7
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
