BB,
So John went back and got the man out after all! Damned brave ! is all I can say. The hornets' nest had already been aroused, the odds were that he was going back to almost certain destruction - and yet he couldn't leave the Indian soldier to his fate.
I hope that John's C.O. told him he was a bloody fool - and then put him up for a DFC..! Such stories are remembered long in India. Suddenly brings to mind a similar tale in which a Dak snatched out some wounded Gurkhas just ahead of an advancing Jap column. Was there a film made "Three miles East of Kalewa" - or have I dreamt it all ?
Must Google. Pity about the headman ("Bo" ?)
Danny.