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War correspondent Dickie Chapelle and Marine sergeant Bernie Marvin take a breather outside Beirut on the way toward another village in the mountains of Lebanon.  Dickie and Marvin became friends. She covered wars for a variety of magazine and news organizations with the Marines on Iwo Jima, Okinawa, the Mid East and Vietnam. She was killed in 1968 in Vietnam while on a patrol. She was the first female war correspondent killed in combat. Dickey and was named an Honorary Marine by The Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association.