Word: jima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snapped combat pictures on a ridge at Iwo Jima while bullets sprayed around her. She cracked up in a Jeep under mortar fire in Cuba. She was threatened with hanging in a Communist prison in Hungary. She parachuted into Viet Cong territory and got back with the story and pictures she had gone after. But last week War Correspondent Dickey Chapelle's luck ran out. While covering a Marine operation near Chu Lai for the National Observer and radio station WOR, she stepped on a land mine and became the fourth war correspondent to be killed in Viet...
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Spirits were high. "We've been ready to do this job for some time," said Karch, an Annapolis-trained veteran who had fought on Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. "There's a sense of relief at the prospect of getting some action...
...issued a new J.F.K. postage stamp last week, but tiny Sierra Leone had already achieved an insurmountable lead in that category by printing 14 different Kennedy stamps in the last year. A bronze bust of Kennedy by Sculptor Felix de Weldon, who did the massive statue of the Two Jima flag raising for the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va., was accepted by President Johnson; it will eventually be placed in the $10 million Kennedy Memorial Library...