{"id":4241,"date":"2025-02-06T09:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T09:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/valerie-andre-daring-french-army-copter-pilot-dies-at-102\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T09:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T09:15:55","slug":"valerie-andre-daring-french-army-copter-pilot-dies-at-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/valerie-andre-daring-french-army-copter-pilot-dies-at-102\/","title":{"rendered":"Val\u00e9rie Andr\u00e9, Daring French Army Copter Pilot, Dies at 102"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Val\u00e9rie Andr\u00e9 was 10 years old in 1932 when, armed with a congratulatory bouquet, she greeted the hero aviator <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1946\/02\/01\/archives\/woman-flier-killed-maryse-hilsz-holder-of-several-records-crashes.html\" title=\"\">Maryse Hilsz<\/a> at the Strasbourg airfield in France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She was already committed to becoming a doctor, an ambitious career goal for a young lady at the time. But she was so warmly received when she presented the flowers to Ms. Hilsz, who had just completed a record-breaking round-trip flight between Paris and Saigon, that she committed herself to another formidable objective: She decided to become an airplane pilot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Val\u00e9rie Andr\u00e9 not only pursued both professions; she thrived in them. She became a brain surgeon, a parachutist and a helicopter pilot who was said to be the first woman to fly rescue missions in combat zones for any military force. She was also the first Frenchwoman to be named a general and was a five-time winner of the Croix de Guerre, for bravery in Indochina and Algeria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Andr\u00e9 died on Jan. 21 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, a suburb of Paris. She was 102.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt all began with the dream of a 10-year-old girl, flying like a star,\u201d Olivia Penichou, a spokeswoman for the French Ministry of Defense, said in announcing the death on social media. \u201cShe worked with determination to ensure that the armed forces opened up to women specialties as closed as those of fighter pilot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The announcement did not say if any immediate family members survived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 120 combat missions in the early 1950s in the dense jungles and soggy rice paddies of Indochina, where the French were trying without success to repulse Communist guerrillas, Dr. Andr\u00e9 flew 168 wounded soldiers from the battlefields to hospitals in Hanoi \u2014 including enemy soldiers, when there was room on the two litters mounted on her single-seat Hiller chopper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She later flew 365 missions into combat zones in North Africa, where Algerians were seeking independence from France. In 1976 she was promoted to general, the first woman to be elevated to that rank in the French Army.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But while her heroism was celebrated at home and she wrote two memoirs in French, her exploits were not as well known abroad \u2014 at least until recently.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-1189og3 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Dr. Andr\u00e9 was the subject of a 2021 documentary, \u201cMadame le G\u00e9n\u00e9ral: An Exceptional Woman,\u201d by Jean-Pierre Brouat. <\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Ladybird Films<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She was the subject of a 2021 documentary, \u201cMadame le G\u00e9n\u00e9ral,\u201d and of an English-language book, \u201cHelicopter Heroine: Val\u00e9rie Andr\u00e9 \u2014 Surgeon, Pioneer Rescue Pilot, and Her Courage Under Fire,\u201d by Charles Morgan Evans, an aviation historian, published in 2023.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-1189og3 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">An English-language book, \u201cHelicopter Heroine: Val\u00e9rie Andr\u00e9 \u2014 Surgeon, Pioneer Rescue Pilot, and Her Courage Under Fire,\u201d  helped spread Dr. Andr\u00e9\u2019s story to the world. <\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Stackpole Books<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Val\u00e9rie Collin Andr\u00e9 was born on April 21, 1922, in Strasbourg, in the Alsace region of northeastern France near the German border. Her father taught music at a boys\u2019 high school. Her mother encouraged her four daughters to pursue the same opportunities for higher education that were available to her five sons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Andr\u00e9 would promote that agenda throughout her career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI considered that each woman possesses the possibility of choosing her own life, even if that choice required more tenacity than that of a man,\u201d Mr. Evans quoted her as saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When she decided to indulge her passions for both medicine and aviation, she tutored students in French and math to pay for flying lessons. She received her pilot\u2019s license when she was 16.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two years later, in 1940, the Germans invaded. She fled Alsace \u2014 first to southwestern France, where the University of Strasbourg had decamped, and then to Nazi-occupied Paris, where she continued her studies at the Sorbonne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While most women studying medicine in France at the time were shunted into pediatrics, gynecology or public health, she majored in neurology. She received a medical degree in 1948, when she was 26.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-1189og3 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Dr. Andr\u00e9 in 1954, when she was a French Army captain and helicopter pilot during the Indochina war.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Intercontinentale\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAt the end of my medical studies, the dean of the faculty of medicine told us the military in Indochina did not have enough doctors,\u201d Dr. Andr\u00e9 told the aviation magazine <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/verticalmag.com\/news\/fighting-girl-valerie-andre\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Vertical<\/a> in 2017. He suggested that she join the army.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While working as a surgeon, she witnessed a helicopter demonstration in Saigon early in 1950 and persuaded her superiors that evacuating the wounded from combat zones to hospitals by chopper would be better than parachuting, which she had done, to treat them on the ground. She later told the Smithsonian News Service that soldiers were awe-struck when they saw \u201ca girl, of all things, falling out of the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She returned to France for preliminary training, underwent further training in Vietnam beginning that October, and then began commanding her first medevac helicopter flights early in 1952.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">According to the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution, she was one of the first 12 women in the world to receive a helicopter pilot rating and the first woman to fly a helicopter into combat zones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 1953, after surviving a crash, she doubled back to France, where she established medical units at military heliports. In 1957 she was deployed to Algeria, where she logged hundreds of rescue missions before coming home in 1962.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As the army\u2019s physician general and a member of a presidential commission, she lobbied indefatigably to grant women a more active role in the military. She retired in 1981 as inspector general of medicine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before she moved into a retirement home in Issy-les-Moulineaux, which happens to be near the Paris heliport, Dr. Andr\u00e9 lived on the top floor of a six-story building nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI wanted a lot of sky,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Because she was a petite woman \u2014 she weighed less than 100 pounds \u2014 her helicopter with Red Cross insignias could accommodate a stretcher on each skid. Before she flew solo, she was trained by an Air Force colonel, Alexis Santini. In 1963, she married him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Well before he died in 1997, she outranked him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/05\/world\/europe\/valerie-andre-dead.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Val\u00e9rie Andr\u00e9 was 10 years old in 1932 when, armed with a congratulatory bouquet, she 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