Excerpt
from the 1962 Dateline for The George Polk Award of 1961:
The
George Polk Memorial Award
AWARD went to the diminutive Dickey Chapelle,
who can hold her own with men twice her size when it comes to covering a war.
it was given to her “for her coverage of
the fighting in Vietnam, during which she made several parachute jumps into
enemy territory.” Among the copy she produced as a result was the book, “What’s
a Woman Doing Here?”, published by William
Morrow & Co. Miss chapel, who is picture parachuting on the book
jacket (in circle), also covered World War II, parachuted into Korea, landed
with the Marines in Lebanon, took some of the first photos of Fidel Castro’s
troops in action, and covered parts of the Algerian fighting.