W.A.A.F.S. Fly With Wounded From France -- General view of stretcher cases being unloaded, on arrival in England. The first British wounded to be evacuated by air from the battlefield in Normandy arrived at a secret airfield last night. Three W.A.A.F., nursing orderlies flew out in the planes and attended the wounded first on a Normandy airstrip and then in the aircraft. September 4, 1944. (Photo by London News Agency Photos).