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Lieut. Genevieve de Galard Terraube, 29, -not four months in Indo-China, not yet one year out of nursing school-waved happily in the turmoil, then laughed. After 41 days of battle and 18 days of Red captivity, she was back from Dienbienphu...
...Stay for the Siege." Last March 26 Genevieve de Galard wrote a letter to her mother, the Vicomtesse de Galard Terraube, in Paris: "There is no reason why anything should happen to me . . . but I am about to leave for Dienbienphu. I am sure God will protect me, and the poor soldiers who are waiting to be evacuated surely deserve that every effort should be made to get them out." At 3 a.m. next morning she landed at the besieged fort, still wearing her blue uniform skirt, a lock of hair flopping loosely across her forehead...
...there are things worse than that.' Some of the Viets were laughing, but there was no attempt to mistreat us. The Viets said in French for our doctors, orderlies and walking wounded to form column, and they led them away. They later took away our nurse, Miss de Galard.* She looked as unafraid as ever. I also saw the Viets taking General de Castries. He was wearing his mudstained battledress and his red overseas cap. He looked detached and impassive. He climbed into a jeep between two heavily armed Viet soldiers, and was driven away...
...Viet Minh doctors and orderlies appeared. They made tents out of parachutes and put us inside them. They had nothing-no medicine, no disinfectants. The surgeons performed operations without anesthetics. We heard our comrades screaming. Then to our astonishment the French doctors and orderlies were brought back. Miss de Galard came back too. One day the Communists told me I was going to be released. They never told...
...Lieut. Genevieve de Galard Terraube, the only woman nurse at Dienbienphu. She has been awarded the Legion of Honor...