WOUNDED PARTISANS
900 Evacuated By Air (Received August 24, 0.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 24. Wave niter wave of Dakotas in daylight on Tuesday flew hundreds of miles over German-occupied territory and lauded on an airstrip in Yugoslavia within the sound of guns and evacuated more than 900 wounded Partisans, says Reuter’s correspondent at Allied headquarters. This, the biggest evacuation flight of its kind, was made in response to an emergency appeal from the Partisans. The Dakotas, unarmed and slow, were close to a battle raging amid the mountains of Yugoslavia, but they returned without loss under the protection of Spitfires and Mustangs. The Dakotas on their inward flight carried tinned food and flour for the Partisans. The wing commander supervising the medical side said that the mission was undertaken just ' In time. “The Germans were closing in,” he said. “We could hear shelling over the hill as we loaded the wounded, the majority of whom were in a pathetic gtate of malnutrition.’’
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 282, 25 August 1944, Page 5
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