Colonial war junkie - Anxious to see action, Le Pen volunteered for service in two wars in French colonies -- the First Indochina War (1946-1954) in Vietnam, and then in Algeria (1954-1962). Shortly ...
The French army neurosurgeon and pilot known as “Mademoiselle Helicopter" flew more than 160 wounded men from the battlefields of Indochina to hospitals in Hanoi.