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|ii cii(_ .S. ,-U/h.t ,-Ur Font' P/U'io HThese nurses were the tirst women to land on the beachhead on the emergency land strip built by Ninth Air Force engineers. They returned from the coast of northern France with poppies and casualties. Left to right: 2 Lts. Eleanor A. GeovaneSle, s Kersey. Penn.; Mary E. Young, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Helen Melissa Clark, Cornwall, s' Conn.; Marijean Brown, Columbus, Ohio; Luella Bernard, Waynesville. Ohio. _5 U.S. Army Nurses Become First Allied Women to LandBy Walter Fishman .Stars and Stripes L’nit CorrespondentA NINTH TROOP CARRIER COMMAND BASE, Britain, June 11—Five U.S. Army nurses Saturday became the first Allied women to land m Franee when they assisted in evacuating: by air 14 stretcher cases, including seven Nazis and a Jap, from the Cherbourg peninsula.While shells burst near the landing strip and P51 Mustangs circled overhead to ward off enemy aircraft, the: nurses, a doctor and six enlisted medical technicians formed the first Ninth Air Force evacuation unit to land in France.The nurses were 2/Lts. Marijean Brown, of Columbus, OhioSuella Bernard, of Waynesviiie, Ohio ;. Eleanor A. Geovanelie, of Hersey, Pa.; Mary E. Young, of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Helen Melissa 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 skytrains—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. ;The aircraft were on French soil for about an hour and a half while medical nersonnel rushed stretcher cases an eiehthof 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, which arrived on the beachhead Wednesday. Bulldozers already were at work on new strips when the hospital planes arrived Saturday.The flight nurses were under the command of Capt. Thomas L. Phillips Jr., of Kuttawa, K.y., only medical officer to make the trip.“That heavy fighter escort certainly looked good.” S/Sgt. Wilfred C. Brand, of Chicago, one of the technicians, said upon his return. * fThe other technicians were S/Sgts. j George L. Snook, of Los Angeles ; James lt;M. Gillespie, of Elizabeth, N.J.; Clarence Tracy, of Drumont, N J.; Louis Bergan- t tino, of Chicago, and Eugene Boyles, of t Bluefield. W. Va. c2/Lt. Glenn E. Linder, of Ft. Lupton, Colo., piloted the plane.Germans Say Prisoners To March Through Paris i-- iGerman radio, in a broadcast by Guenther Boehme, war correspondent in lt;France, said last night: i“Tonight the first batch of several thousand Anglo-American prisoners will i he made to march through Paris. All Anglo-American troops taken prisoner in the invasion will be obliged to pass lt;through Paris.” lt;
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