ERRAND OF MERCY
LONDON, June 25. One of the strangest episodes in the batle for Cherbourg occurred this morning, when a motor-cycle with a German driver and an American airman in a sidecar came out under a white Hag. says a British United Press correspondent. The airman, who had been wounded in the left arm, explained that he was a prisoner of war and had come from a military hospital in Cherbourg, with a German doctor, to ask. for blood plasma and additional drugs to treat the wounded. Tbe Americans supplied plasma aud drugs, and. the German doctor then returned to Cherbourg with the wounded American. More than 5000 wounded were evacuated bv sea from the United States beacb-heads in France in the first 1H davs of the invasion. Five hundred of them were Germans or foreigners serving in the German Army. Captain George Dowling, of the United States Navy, said: “Me were able to handle the job successfully because we were readv for the worst which happened. We used every kind of landing, craft to convey the wounded to Britain. ’
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 230, 27 June 1944, Page 5
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181ERRAND OF MERCY Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 230, 27 June 1944, Page 5
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