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Angel of Dien Bien Phu visits Washington and more
Miss Genevieve De Galard-Terraube, the 29-year-old nurse famed as the angel of Dien Bien Phu, visits Washington invited by Congress after nursing troops in Indochina. She attends a buffet dance at Andrews Air Force Base with cadets from 22 countries, then wreaths the nurses memorial at Arlington and visits Walter Reed Hospital. The report also notes a Kalamazoo plane landing during a baseball game and a pair of French governesses touring Los Angeles who received two marriage proposals.
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Washington
Genevieve de Galard-Terraube
Dien Bien Phu
Miss de Galard
Indochina
Congress
Andrews Air Force Base
Civil Air Patrol
Lucas V. Bean
CAF
Beau
National Nurses’ Memorial
Arlington Cemetery
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
Kalamazoo
Mich
George Grachacz
Detroit
Dickinson
Gracnez
Grubner
Christiene de Beauchaine
Miss de Beauchaine
United Nations
United States
Magontier
Paris
Trea
Naval Air Station
R. de Witt Hunter
Eddy Mossman
Albert Hickson
Bobby White