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Born Geneviève Marie Anne Marthe DE GALARD TERRAUBE
French nurse who was dubbed l'ange de Dien Bien Phu ("the Angel of Dien Bien Phu") during the French war in Indochina
Born on April 13, 1925 in Paris, France , France
Died on May 30, 2024 , France
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She passed the state exam to become a nurse and eventually became a flight nurse for the French Air Force. She was posted to French Indochina by her own request and arrived there in May 1953, in the middle of the war between French forces and the Vietminh.
... Geneviève de Galard was born in the southwest of France. The Second World War forced her family to move from Paris to Toulouse.
She passed the state exam to become a nurse and eventually became a flight nurse for the French Air Force. She was posted to French Indochina by her own request and arrived there in May 1953, in the middle of the war between French forces and the Vietminh.
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