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

Decolonisation fuelled Le Pen’s nationalistic ideals. He enrolled as a French soldier in the Indochina and Algeria independence wars, and afterwards alluded to torture by French forces in his ...

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 ...

125 Moroccan soldiers escaped the French army during the Indochina war in Vietnam. Fleeing death, these soldiers were forgotten by the government for several years. From 1954 to 1972, they lived ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died Tuesday aged 96, was the far-right bogeyman of French politics, infamously dismissing the Holocaust as a detail of history and spending half a century whipping up anger ...

Mr Le Pen helped rewrite the parameters of French politics in a career spanning 40 years. Read more at straitstimes.com.

"As a soldier in the French army in Indochina and Algeria, as a tribune of the people in the National Assembly and the European Parliament, he always served France and defended its identity and ...

FILE - Valerie Andre, a French Army captain, doctor and helicopter pilot, is shown in front of her helicopter in Tonkin, in northern Indochina, July 30, 1952. Valerie Andre, a French aviator and ...

André, who had a medicine degree and flew for the first time as a teenager, combined her two passions and became a military doctor, serving in Indochina ... soldiers she served,” the French ...

FILE - Valerie Andre, a French Army captain, doctor and helicopter pilot, is shown in front of her helicopter in Tonkin, in northern Indochina, July 30 ... staying as close as possible to the soldiers ...