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 Overlæge Aage Astrup, 102 år, var en
meget
interesseret tilhører under Foredrag
i
SKELUND om Allierede flyvere skudt ned
over egnen og resten af Danmark.
Han fortalte den 28. september 2015 om sin tid på Nakskov Sygehus, hvor han
var
1. reservelæge 1944-46, mens McDougall var overlæge.
Dengang var der på Nakskov Sygehus plads til omkring 125 patienter, næsten
alle kirurgiske patienter, mens medicinske patienter var på Maribo Sygehus.
Se Nakskov 2016.
Aage Astrup fortalte, hvordan
Earl F. Green blev indlagt den 9. april 1944
med benbrud. Når det var helet, ville tyskerne sende ham til
Tyske krigsfangelejre.
Astrup og McDougall trak behandlingen i
langdrag. Et røntgenbillede 2 måneder gammelt fik den gamle dato klippet af
og aktuel dato blev skrevet på!
Den 9. august 1944 mistede tyskerne tålmodigheden og hentede Green.
Lægerne var nødt til at amputere Charles F. Hoppers
arm, men de reddede hans liv. Diagnosen var gasgangræn (koldbrand) - altså
ikke gasangreb, fastslog
Aage Astrup under interview 21. oktober 2015 af Anders Straarup. Den 5. juni blev Hopper udskrevet til fortsat
behandling i Tyskland.
Lynn H. Barbour havde også benbrud. Det
lykkedes Aage Astrup at sende et brev
via
Sverige til hans kone i U.S.A. som
hun modtog 14 dage inden et officielt
brev fra luftvåbnet om at hendes mands fly var blevet skudt ned, så han blev
meldt savnet, muligvis omkommet.
Læs om Aage Astrup og McDougall's
behandling af 3 sårede amerikanske flyvere i 1944:
Earl F. Green * Charles F. Hopper *
Lynn H. Barbour
i artikel i Lolland-Falsters FOLKETIDENDE
6. februar 2002 af Mogens Warrer:
Flyveren og sygeplejersken
(kopi fra Aage Astrup via Ib Walbum)
og
fra Peter Gade,
Lolland-Falsters FOLKETIDENDE 8. maj 2015:
På færten - Snød tyskerne
med flyverbehandlinger - Likvidering
skabte frygt.
Mange danske læger og sygeplejersker hjalp
allierede flyvere med medicinsk behandling - og mere end det!
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 Chief
surgeon Aage Astrup, 102, listened with great interest to my
Lecture
in
SKELUND about Allied airmen shot down over the area and the rest of
Denmark.
On 28 September 2015 Chief surgeon Aage Astrup told the audience about his time at
Nakskov Hospital where he was the assistant surgeon 1944-46 while
McDougall
was the Chief surgeon. Then Nakskov Hospital had room for about
125
patients, nearly all of them surgical patients, while medical patients were
taken to Maribo.
See Nakskov 2016.
Aage Astrup related how
Earl F. Green was taken to the hospital on 9
April
1944 with a fracture of his leg. When it had healed the Germans wanted to
take him
to
German POW-Camps.
Astrup and McDougall dragged his treatment out.
An X-ray photo 2 months old
had the old date cut off and replaced with
the
present date! On 9 August 1944 the Germans lost their patience and fetched Green.
The doctors had to amputate Charles F. Hopper's
arm, but they saved
his
life. (In the article the diagnosis was wrong, but
in the translation it is correct after an
interview with Aage Astrup by Anders Straarup on 21 October 2015.)
On 5 June Hopper was discharged and taken to
further treatment in Germany.
Lynn H. Barbour also had a fracture of his
leg. Aage Astrup managed to
send a letter via Sweden to his wife in the
U.S.A. which she received a
fortnight
before she received an official letter from the United States Army Air Forces that her husband's plane had been shot down, and that he was
Missing in
Action,
possibly Killed in Action.
Read about Aage
Astrup and McDougall's treatment of 3 wounded American airmen in
1944: Earl F. Green *
Charles F. Hopper * Lynn H. Barbour
in an article in Lolland-Falsters FOLKETIDENDE
6 February 2002 by Mogens
Warrer:
The airman and the nurse (Copy from
Aage Astrup via Ib Walbum)
and from Peter Gade, Lolland-Falsters FOLKETIDENDE 8
May 2015:
Sensing the presense of
history * Fooled the Germans *
Liquidations.
Many Danish doctors and nurses helped
Allied airmen with medical treatment - and more than that! |
