Dickey Chapelle Essay
Historic Background by Emily Weller The book my partner and I wrote is about Dickey Chapelle, a woman reporter in World War II and the events that she covered.This book is supposed to be a historical short story about an amazing woman that did very important things for World War II. This book promises the child reader to inform them about amazing events that Dickey Chapelle covered during World War II in a non gruesome way that is easy to understand. We used reliable sources to write our book so we knew the most important facts about our character and her life story. Our story mostly takes place in The United States when our character gets stationed in California, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Missouri, New York and Washington. Our story also
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When and how Dickey Chapelle became a reporter, When she was on the hospital ship in Iwo Jima, And when she went ashore in Okinawa. Dickey Chapelle went to the Technology Institute of Massachusetts but flunked out because she spent all of her time at a local airport learning about aviation and taking pictures of the airplanes. She decided to take up photography and she married her photography teacher. She then was offered to write local news stories in New York. She then asked her boss if she could go to the Pacific to cover what women were doing for the war. Dickey went on a hospital ship in Iwo Jima to cover what the nurses were doing to help all of the wounded soldiers. She was surprised to see how much work everyone was doing. She made it to Okinawa and the men that brought her to the island left her stranded there for the night instead of taking her back after a couple hours, like their orders were stated. She quickly realized that being in the frontlines were extremely different than just being on a hospital ship. She was rescued after being arrested by the Japanese.
The casualties for Japan were about 142,000 people and around 14,000 deaths. At the World War II the United Stated had approximately 450,000 Military casualties alone. The great depression ended and more industries were built in the United States. World War II still effects Japan. Although Japan recovered the culture and population some problems simply
When and how Dickey Chapelle became a reporter, When she was on the hospital ship in Iwo Jima, And when she went ashore in Okinawa. Dickey Chapelle went to the Technology Institute of Massachusetts but flunked out because she spent all of her time at a local airport learning about aviation and taking pictures of the airplanes. She decided to take up photography and she married her photography teacher. She then was offered to write local news stories in New York. She then asked her boss if she could go to the Pacific to cover what women were doing for the war. Dickey went on a hospital ship in Iwo Jima to cover what the nurses were doing to help all of the wounded soldiers. She was surprised to see how much work everyone was doing. She made it to Okinawa and the men that brought her to the island left her stranded there for the night instead of taking her back after a couple hours, like their orders were stated. She quickly realized that being in the frontlines were extremely different than just being on a hospital ship. She was rescued after being arrested by the Japanese.
The casualties for Japan were about 142,000 people and around 14,000 deaths. At the World War II the United Stated had approximately 450,000 Military casualties alone. The great depression ended and more industries were built in the United States. World War II still effects Japan. Although Japan recovered the culture and population some problems simply