Helicopter Heroine! Author: Charles Morgan Evans

Valérie André is a medevac helicopter pioneer—and the first woman to fly a helicopter in combat. 

For her service in Vietnam she was decorated with the Legion of Honor, the National Order of Vietnam and the Croix de Guerre for valor in foreign operations. 

And she is the first woman to become a general in the French military.

André, born in Strasbourg in 1922, was a member of the French Resistance in World War II. 

During her time as a medical student after the war, she learned to fly fixed-wing aircraft at a local flying club. In 1948 she graduated from the University of Paris with a medical degree and qualified as a neurosurgeon.

Charles Morgan Evans is the author of Helicopter Heroine.  Mr. Evans is also the author of The War of the Aeronauts, A History of Ballooning in the Civil War. 

He is the founding curator of the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California and a graduate of San Francisco and San Jose State Universities.   He currently resides in Reno and in Oregon.

This will be the first of a Potluck Dinner Series with impressive speakers such as Charles Evans, Linda Ciampoli (Churchill's Secret Agent), Roswitha Smale's work with cheetahs.

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