HOSPITAL BOMBED
MANY AMERICAN CASUALTIES LONDON. Feb. 8. An American correspondent in the Italian beach-head area says that on Monday afternoon German planes divebombed an American evacuation hospital. Twenty-six were killed and 43 wounded. Two American nurses v/ere among those killed and 12 were wounded.
An eye-witness says that the bombers came in at 500 ft and dropped antipersonnel bombs, which sent shrapnel pouring through two of the hospital receiving tents.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25456, 10 February 1944, Page 5
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