Summary of Elizabeth Becker's You Don't Belong Here

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Book Preview: #1 In February 1967, Catherine Leroy was selected to be the photographer on the first US airborne assault of the Vietnam War. She was with the Second Battalion of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and was sworn to secrecy until the operation began. She barely slept, and rose with the troops before dawn.

#2 Leroy was the only woman combat photographer in Vietnam, and she had been the only one for over a year. She had been the only one to challenge the American public’s perception of women as being unable to cover war.

#3 Catherine Leroy was the first female combat photographer, and she died in 1965. She was killed in November 1965, only months after she arrived in Vietnam. Her death made history.

#4 Catherine’s parents were horrified when she dropped out of secondary school to go to Paris and pursue her dreams of being a blues singer. She took up sky jumping and became a photographer. She was serious about photography and found a mind-numbing job at a temporary hiring agency in Paris.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669356301

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Insights on Elizabeth Becker's You Don't Belong Here

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In February 1967, Catherine Leroy was selected to be the photographer on the first US airborne assault of the Vietnam War. She was with the Second Battalion of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and was sworn to secrecy until the operation began. She barely slept, and rose with the troops before dawn.

#2

Leroy was the only woman combat photographer in Vietnam, and she had been the only one for over a year. She had been the only one to challenge the American public’s perception of women as being unable to cover war.

#3

Catherine Leroy was the first female combat photographer, and she died in 1965. She was killed in November 1965, only months after she arrived in Vietnam. Her death made history.

#4

Catherine’s parents were horrified when she dropped out of secondary school to go to Paris and pursue her dreams of being a blues singer. She took up sky jumping and became a photographer. She was serious about photography and found a mind-numbing job at a temporary hiring agency in Paris.

#5

The end of the French and American occupations of Vietnam was brought on by the anticommunist Red Scare in Washington, which led to the accusations that some of the State Department’s top China specialists had been disloyal and lost China.

#6

The American public went along with the French decision to bankroll the Vietnamese fight in Vietnam, and the French defeat at Diem Bien Phu was