SAVED TEN MEN
AMBULANCE HERO ITALIAN AS ORDERLY CAIRO. Ten wounded men of the Eighth Army were saved by the courage of a 50-year-old American, John Dun, former editor'of the Toledo Blade, on the first night of the offensive. Three ambulances bogged in the Qattara Depression came under heavy enemy machine-gun fire. Dun, one of the drivers, carried two of his three patients to shelter. As he lifted the third an explosive bullet hit the man in the stomach and killed him. An Italian soldier, lost in the battlefield, acted as Dun's orderly. They stayed with the ambulances for three hours as bullet after bullet riddled the vehicles. Finally a British tank rolled up and pulled the three ambulances on to firm ground, Dun steering each in turn. He found a soldier to drive one ambulance, but had to teach another how to drive the second. Then, at the wheel of the third, he led the convoy to Tank Corps headquarters and delivered the ten patients to the medical officer.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 33, 9 February 1943, Page 2
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