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Escape report Joseph Williams Matthews
British paratrooper Joseph Williams Matthews jumped over
Normandy during the night preceding the Normandy invasion. He was wounded
upon touching ground and rescued by the French and eventually repatriated to
UK.
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"I came down on
the borders of BLONVILLE (L 4208). I was unconscious for about three hours
and on coming to found I could not move owing to severe sprains. I was in
this wood without help for seven days when a man heard me call out and took
me to a member of the French Resistance (a woman). She took me to the post
house and I was treated by a doctor who visited me three times a week for
three weeks.
I was in BLONVILLE when L/Cpl
PALFREY was brought there." |
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Source:
http://www.conscript-heroes.com/escapelines/index.htm
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