GENEVIÈVE DE GALARD
Known as l’ange de Dien Bien Phu, Geneviève de Galard is France’s greatest living military heroine and a recipient of the country’s highest honor. An air force flight nurse, she volunteered for service in French-controlled Indochina and arrived in Vietnam in April 1953. Nearly one year later, at about 4 a.m. on March 28, 1954, she flew in a Douglas
