New PDF release: Angel of Dien Bien Phu: The Lone French Woman at the

By Genevieve de Galard

As the one French lady between a few 11,000 defenders at Dien Bien Phu, Geneviève de Galard had a distinct standpoint of the siege and fall of the French citadel. This memoir approximately her years as a flight nurse for the French air strength deals formerly unknown information about their defeat. De Galard was once at the flights that evacuated casualties from the conflict, frequently touchdown in the middle of Vietminh artillery barrages. After a French air strength C-47 with de Galard on board used to be heavily broken, she tended to the wounded and demise in a box clinic. Her efforts gained her the Knight's go and the Croix de Guerre, and from the yankee press the identify Angel of Dien Bien Phu. Following a tickertape parade in long island, President Eisenhower offered her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1954. Now, americans can examine the entire story.

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