[Larry]

My dad was on 575 Sqn RAF and 48 Sqn RAF in 1944 for D-Day and Arnhem, (based at RAF Broadwell & RAF Down Ampney) and he remembers many Dakotas made trips to Normandy as soon as the Allied airstrips became available, and would return with wounded, which he as ground crew was obliged to 'unload' in their stretchers and re-load on to awaiting ambulances. The Allied wounded had nurses with them on the flight back to 'blighty' so the only 'medical treatment' he gave was to stick a lighted cigarette in a soldier's mouth.