French aircraft carrier stages combat drills with Filipinos in disputed sea and visits ...
France's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and accompanying warships are in the Philippines after holding combat drills with Filipino forces in the disputed South China Sea in a show of firepower that ...
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Valérie André, first woman to fly a helicopter into combat zones, nicknamed ‘Madame ...
In 1976, as the French army’s first female general Credit: Jacques Pavlovsky “Madame Ventilateur” [French for “fan”], as she was known, flew 129 helicopter missions in her Red Cross ...
Valérie André, Daring French Army Copter Pilot, Dies at 102
She was the first woman to fly rescue missions in a combat zone, in Indochina and Algeria. She was also the first Frenchwoman ...
BBC1 年
Background to the Vietnam conflict
The French had tried to block a communist supply line and set up a defensive system at an army base in Dien Bien ... July 1954 and temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones: a northern zone ...
WYSO13 天
Valérie André, French 'Helicopter Heroine' and army medic, dies at 102
Long before there were air ambulance companies like CareFlight, and TV shows like 'China Beach' and 'M*A*S*H,' Valérie André ...
BBC22 天
Background to the Vietnam War
The Geneva Agreement spelled the end of French control in Vietnam and the beginning of a major dilemma for American political and military leaders. The USA sent military advisors to support Diem ...