FATAL ACCIDENT
AT MILITARY MANOEUVRES.
TWO U.S.A. SERVICE MEN DEAD.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WHANGAREI, April 29.
As the result of an unfortunate accident on manoeuvres one American service man was killed outright and another so seriously injured that he died in the Whangarei Hospital six hours after admission. The hospital doctors in close co-operation with American doctors fought hard for four hours to save the patient on whom an operation was performed and for whom his comrades gave blood transfusions but without avail.
Four other men were injured but are making excellent progres. The men were brought a considerable distance in two ambulances to Whangarei.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 April 1943, Page 2
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