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...sleeping on an iron cot in a flimsy wooden house, something like a run-down American beach cottage, in the town of Tacloban. Several correspondents were staying there. Asahel ("Ace") Bush of the Associated Press and John Terry of the Chicago Daily News were in one room, Stanley Gunn of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Clete Roberts of the Blue Network and I in another, John Dowling of the Chicago Sun in a third...
...feet said in a tight voice, "I'm hit. Can you help me up? Are my legs broken? Help me out of this hole." I reached down and took hold of Stanley Gunn's hand and began trying to lift him gently. A few seconds later when the other correspondents wobbled in with flashlights I realized that there was no hole.. I grabbed a towel and twisted it around his leg for a tourniquet. Gunn was magnificent in spite of the terrible wounds he had suffered. He sat partly up and watched me get the towel adjusted...
...That Night I Dug a Trench." Terry had had one blood transfusion and was definitely out of danger. Five correspondents gave blood for Gunn, who was much more gravely injured and the nurses unquestionably saved his life. I didn't get any work done that day. Most of it I sat around the hospital holding my big head in my hands and waiting to give blood if they wanted type zero. That night I dug myself a slit trench and slept...
...Colonel Gunn interviewed the Rumanian air minister, who introduced him to Cantacuzino, Rumania's leading ace, with a score of 64 downed Allied planes. Cantacuzino agreed to fly Gunn to Italy...
...Colonel Gunn told his story to General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson and his U.S. air commander, Lieut. General Ira Eaker. They made a quick decision. Within twelve hours 38 Flying Fortresses were speeding toward Bucharest; more soon followed. At Bucharest's airport the bombers took aboard the 1,100-odd men and brought them back to Italy. Fifty were wounded, 17 on crutches and ten on stretchers. All were happy. So were their families in the U.S., who were promptly notified...