Genevieve De Galard

Geneviève de Galard was a flight nurse for the French Air Force who received the name of the Angel of Dien Bien Phu during the French war in Indochina. She volunteered for French Indochina and arrived there in May 1953, in the middle of the war between French forces and the Vietminh. During the battle she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Légion d´Honneur and the Croix de Guerre. On 29 July 1954 President Eisenhower awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the...See more

Geneviève de Galard was a flight nurse for the French Air Force who received the name of the Angel of Dien Bien Phu during the French war in Indochina. She volunteered for French Indochina and arrived there in May 1953, in the middle of the war between French forces and the Vietminh. During the battle she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Légion d´Honneur and the Croix de Guerre. On 29 July 1954 President Eisenhower awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden in Washington, DC. She currently lives in Paris with her husband. See less