LIFE SAVED
BRITISH AIRMAN DROPPED FROM PLANE TIMELY MEDICAL AID FROM ENEMY LONDON, December 14. The amazing story of how a man s life was saved through one of his companions dropping him overboard from his plane while over Germany has been told in London. The man was sne of a Flying Fortress crew which! was raiding Germany when enemy fighters attacked it. A cannon shell hit the top turret gunner and blew his arm off so close to the shoulder that no tourniquet could be applied to stop him from bleeding to death. Another cannon shell killed the pilot, and the co-pilot struggled with one hand to keep the dead man’s body off the controls while he flew the plane with the other. The navigator realised that the gunner must have help quickly or die. He fixed his parachute on the wounded man and dropped him out of the escape hatch. His only hope was that the gunner would land near enough to some Germans to receive immediate medical aid. Later it was learned that the gunner was found by the Germans and his life was saved. He is now a prisoner of war.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 December 1943, Page 4
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