On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7, 1954), reporters of the Vietnam News Agency in Paris visited 99-year-old Geneviève de Galard, the only female flight nurse of the French force in the historic 56-day campaign. During the campaign, Geneviève participated in several emergency flights to bring injured soldiers out of the battlefield. On March 28, the Dakota plane that took her to Dien Bien Phu to pick up wounded soldiers broke down, unable to take off and then destroyed by artillery shells, leaving her stranded in Dien Bien Phu.
Source: Vietnam News Agency