SAVED TEN MEN
AMBULANCE HERO Cairo. Ten wounded men of the Eighth Army were saved by the courage of a .bO-year-old American, John Dun, former editor of the M'oledo Blade, oji the first night of th" 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 battelfield, acted as Dun's orderly. They stayed with the ambulances for three hours as bullet after bullet riddled the vehicles. Finally a Britisn 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 Lhe medical officer.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 63, 17 March 1943, Page 5
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