Helicopter Heroine

Valerie Andre is one of the great military aviators of the twentieth century. She was the first woman to fly a helicopter in combat and one of the first three helicopter medevac pilots. Flying more than 150 helicopter rescue missions during the French war in Indochina, and parachuting into the field twice, Andre was a trailblazer, a pioneer of flying helicopters in combat, and an innovator of battlefield medicine. Aviation historian Charles Morgan Evans tells her story with verve and pathos.