Item #029146 Girls at Work in Aviation. Meyer Dickey, Chapelle.
Girls at Work in Aviation
Girls at Work in Aviation
Girls at Work in Aviation
Girls at Work in Aviation

Girls at Work in Aviation

New York; (1943): Doubleday, Doran and Co. First Edition. Octavo. Item #029146

). 209pp. While the author is known for being the first American reporter to die in military action (Chau Lai, South Vietnam, November 4, 1972), her career is one of the great women of adventure from World War II to her demise in Vietnam. At age 14 she wrote an article "Why We Want to Fly" (which was published in the U.S. Air Service magazine. In 1939 she was a correspondent for the NY Times covering a Cuban air show. At age 25 she was the first woman photographer accredited to the Pacific Fleet. After World War II, she was in trouble spots around the world. While at the Hungarian border near Andau, she became friends with writer James Michener who wrote: "Dickey and I sometimes went far beyond the Russian lines. I was cautious, she was totally fearless. I would draw back from spots of danger; she would crowd forward." Her actions led to bringing out over a hundred Hungarians and Michener wrote: "If she were a man, they would have called her a hero". She ended up in a Hungarian prison where she served 53 days in solitary confinement before the U.S State Department was able to get her release. She covered the Algerian War, interviewed Fidel Castro before he became the President of Cuba, and then covered the Lebanese Civil War. In 1961 she arrived in Vietnam, spending twenty-four hours a day with soldiers often sharing foxholes. Her accounts were edited to avoid the grim reality of the war. She was on a morning patrol on November 4, 1965, when the man on point, tripped a booby trap that killed them both. "Guess it was bound to happen" she said before she died. The 82nd Airborne named a drop zone after her and six marines served as her honor guard at the funeral. 78 photographs in factories, airplanes, and profusely illustrated with photographic images. Bound in beige cloth framed in red, spine lettering red, a very copy in a very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket with chips to spine ends and tiny chips along bottom edge of front panel. Previous owner's name stamped on endpapers, a veteran of WWII.

Price: $225.00

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