Valérie André, a French military officer, brain surgeon, and licensed pilot who was believed to be the first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat zones — during the French-Indochina war ...

Valérie André, a French aviator and parachutist who became the first woman to become a general officer in France, has died. She was 102.

The Algerian war used to be waged between the French army and Moslem rebels fighting ... a bomb destroyed a Moslem tenement, killing ten women and children, and Europeans drove off rescuers ...

Valérie André, a pioneering French aviator and the first woman general in France, passed away at 102. Combining her expertise in medicine and aviation, she served as a military doctor and helicopter ...

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice ...

Because of its subject matter – Algeria, photographed from 1957 to 1961, in the years of France's war there – and the ... The Ricochet of Images"), by French-Algerian artist Katia Kameli.

PARIS — Valérie André, a French aviator ... At the end of the Algeria War, André returned to France to continue her career as a medical officer and championed the role of women in the ...