Title: New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy

Author: Stout, T. Duncan M.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1956, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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Red Cross Protection

The protection of the Red Cross was utilised for the divisional medical units and the evidence is that it was respected by the enemy. The transport planes destroyed when being used to evacuate wounded were not marked with the Red Cross, and ambulance planes so marked were not molested. Deliberate bombing of medical units did not occur, though bombing of our forces was common at this period and was responsible for many casualties.