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French Boy Is Real War Hero Amid Bombing At Commercy
A World War I dispatch rider recalls rescuing a grievously injured seven or eleven year old French boy during Luftbombing near Commercy and Pagny sur Meuse. The rider pulled the boy’s dislocated shoulder and reset a leg, then ferried him toward Toul hospital as bombs fell, witnessing civilians harmed in the raids and the front’s destruction.
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