She was the woman in the floppy jungle hat, standing in front of a Hiller 360 helicopter—young, with a confident smile, ...

This talk, based on extensive research in Cambodian, French, and Vietnamese archives and libraries, focuses on a neglected part of the First Indochina War (1945-54), the struggle for the southern ...

brain surgeon and licensed pilot who was believed to be the first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat zones — ...

first in the Vietnamese theater and later in Algeria.” Known as “Madame Ventilator,” she left for the war during the French occupation of Indochina as part of the expeditionary corps ...

(April Gamiz/The Morning Call) Robert Pearce was a Navy aerographer’s mate first class in the Philippines during World War II ... China Sea and along the Indochina coast.