Genevieve de Galard, the "Angel of Dien Bien Phu," died at 99, hailed for her "exemplary devotion" by French President Macron.Genevieve de Galard, a nurse dubbed the “Angel of Dien Bien Phu” for treating wounded during a defining 1954 battle in then French Indochina, has died aged 99, with President Emmanuel Macron on Friday hailing her “exemplary devotion”.
The blue-eyed nurse, who hailed from a family of aristocrats, applied field dressings, administered injections and comforted the wounded. Some died in her arms.One of the evacuation planes she travelled in was destroyed by gunfire when she was about to leave Dien Bien Phu.She remained on the ground for two months, “the only nurse in this tropical trap, where 15,000 men were fighting and dying”, the president’s office said.
French daily Le Figaro said that Galard “was certainly one of the last witnesses to one of the worst tragedies suffered by the French army.”“As a military nurse, Genevieve de Galard showed exemplary devotion to the courage and suffering of 15,000 French soldiers during the worst hours of the Indochina war.”Galard told AFP in 2014: “The noise of the bombings was infernal and, when there was a lull in the morning, we knew that other stretchers were going to arrive.
Galard herself was held prisoner for 17 days and was repatriated to France after being granted freedom by president Ho Chi Minh.On her return she was celebrated as a star and French magazine Paris Match featured the 29-year-old on its cover.Macron hosts Xi in French mountains to talk Ukraine, trade
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