Special hospital vessels evacuate Allied wounded
London, England (UP) – (June 6)
U.S. and British soldiers wounded as the first waves of Allied invasion forces surged across the beaches of France today have already been evacuated in special hospital landing craft that penetrated to the shore closely behind the assault troops.
Many lives have been saved by naval doctors who performed emergency operations on operating tables anchored to the decks, while on shore, under fire, Army surgical teams have established first-aid stations on the battlefields.
Wounded men unable to return to the fight were carried swiftly by litter teams to the landing crafts, after having received initial treatment in the frontline first-aid stations.
As soon as the hospital craft were full, they turned back and plowed their way through the crowded beachhead seas to big ships, aboard which the wounded were lifted in slings and taken to base hospitals in England.