Vietnam War

===Journalists===
Women also played a prominent role as front-line reporters in the conflict, directly reporting on the conflict as it occurred.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Becker |first=Elizabeth |date=17 November 2017 |title=Opinion {{!}} The Women Who Covered Vietnam |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/opinion/women-journalists-vietnam.html |access-date=1 June 2018 |issn=0362-4331|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409152947/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/opinion/women-journalists-vietnam.html|archive-date=April 9, 2023}}</ref> A number of women volunteered on the North Vietnamese side as embedded journalists, including author [[Lê Minh Khuê]] embedded with PAVN forces,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Stars, The Earth, The River {{!}} Northwestern University Press |url=http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/stars-earth-river |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618025620/http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/stars-earth-river |archive-date=18 June 2018 |access-date=1 June 2018 |website=www.nupress.northwestern.edu |language=en}}</ref> on the Ho Chi Minh trail as well as on combat fronts.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lamb |first=David |date=10 January 2003 |title=Vietnam's Women of War |language=en-US |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://articles.latimes.com/2003/jan/10/world/fg-vietnam10 |access-date=1 June 2018 |issn=0458-3035|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125194236/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-10-fg-vietnam10-story.html|archive-date=November 25, 2022}}</ref> A number of prominent Western journalists were also involved in covering the war, with [[Dickey Chapelle]] being among the first as well as the first American female reporter killed in a war. The French-speaking Australian journalist [[Kate Webb]] was captured along with a photographer and others by the Viet Cong in Cambodia and traveled into Laos with them; they were released back into Cambodia after 23 days of captivity.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Kate Webb – Captured in Cambodia |language=en |work=UPI |url=https://www.upi.com/Kate-Webb-Captured-in-Cambodia/53871034760165/ |access-date=1 June 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211072126/https://www.upi.com/Kate-Webb-Captured-in-Cambodia/53871034760165/|archive-date=February 11, 2018}}</ref> Webb would be the first Western journalist to be captured and released, as well as cover the perspective of the Viet Cong in her memoir ''On The Other Side.'' Another French-speaking journalist, [[Catherine Leroy]], was briefly captured and released by North Vietnamese forces during the Battle of Huế, capturing some famous photos from the battles that would appear on the cover of ''Life Magazine''.<ref name=Bowden/>{{Rp|245}}