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ArnrvBecomeF i r st•/Allied W omen to LandBv Waller Fishman .mfStars and Stripes I'nit CorrespondentA NINTH TROOP CARRIER COMMAND BASE, Britain, June It—Five U.S. Army nurses Saturday became the hrst Allied women to land in Francewhen they assisted in evacuating by air14 stretcher cases, including seven Nazisand a Jap. from the Cherbourg peninsula.While shells burst near the landing strip and P51 Mustangs circled overhead to ward oft enemy aircraft, the nurses, a doctor and six enlisted medical technicians formed the first Ninth Air Force evacuation unit to land in France.2/Lts. Marijean Ohio SuellaThe nurses were Brown, of Columbus,Bernard, of Waynesvilie, Ohio; Eleanor A. Geovanelle, of Hersey, Pa.; Mary E. 011112. of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Flelen Mel issa Clark, of Cornwall, Conn.The first group of casualties to be flown to Britain were the seven prisoners, one a Luftwaffe officer and a Japanese in a German Army uniform, six American soldiers ranking from lieutenant colonel to private, and a Frenchman who fought with the underground.The C47 sky trains—first Allied aircraft to make scheduled landings on the Continent—took off at 8.48 AM Saturday, landed on hard dirt strips in a Cherbourg peninsula beachhead, and were' back in Britain at 1: 10 PM with their cargoes of wounded. jThe aircraft were on French soil for about an hour and a half while medical personnel rushed stretcher cases :an eighth. 'of a mile from the field hospital to the landing strips.The landing field, 3,600 feet by 200 feet, had been hurriedly constructed by Ninth Air Force engineer units, whicharrived on the beachhead Wednesday.Bulldozers already were at work on new strips when the hospital planes arrived Saturday.The fltght nurses were under the command of Capt. Thomas L. Phillips Jr., of Kuttawa, Ky., only medical officer to make the trip.“That heavy fighter escort certainlygood.” SSgt. Wilfredone of the techniciansuponThe other technicians were S/Sgts.GeorgeElizabethBluefield. W. Va. -7 ”Louis Berg Eugene Boyies,2/Lt. Glenn E. Linder, of Ft. Lupton, Colo., piloted the plane.Germans Say Prisoners To March Throuah ParisGerman radio, in a broadcast by Guenther Boehme, war correspondent inFrance, said last night:first batchof several“Tonight the thousand Anglo-American prisoners will be made to march through Paris. AlltakenAnglo-American troops the invasion willinprisonerbe obliged to passthrough Paris.M
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Mon, Jun 12, 1944
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