AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE
SAVING SOLDIER'S LIFE A '• flying ambulance " has battled its way across the massive Atlas Mountains in North Africa in a raging temoest to save the life of a French cor< poral. The corporal, garrisoned at Tidikelt, near the oasis of ln-Salah, in the heart of the Sahara, had a severe abscess in his throat, and was in danger of being choked to death. The corporal's colonel sent out a wireless message calling for an " air ambulance," with a doctor, to be despatched from Maison Blanche, the " Croydon " of Algiers. The ambulance set out with another airplane as escort, and in spite of the raging storm flew over the Atlas Mountains and landed at Laghouat, about 200 miles from the coast. Next day the two machines flew on to ln-Salah. But violent sandstorms were blowing and it was 24 hours before the air ambulance could attempt the return journey. The moment the storm subsided the patient was placed in the air ambulance, which flew with an open throttle in live hours to Laghouat—about 500 miles away—where there is a hospital. There the man received skilled attention, and later he was taken by air to Algiers, where he was operated on in the more fully-equipped hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21496, 20 May 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)
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