Prince Harry to honour Cork war hero who was evacuated from Dunkirk and survived atomic bomb drop

Prince Harry is to name a new RAF medical centre in honour of a Cork doctor who was evacuated from Dunkirk and survived the atomic bomb drop on Nagasaki.

Prince Harry to honour Cork war hero who was evacuated from Dunkirk and survived atomic bomb drop
Wed, 19 Jul, 2017 - 01:00
Sean O’Riordan

Dr Aidan MacCarthy’s two daughters, Nicola and Adrienne, will be present when the medical centre at RAF Honington in Bury St Edmunds is dedicated to their father, a native of Castletownbere.

It was at the Suffolk base that the doctor rescued the crew of an RAF bomber which crash-landed in flames on May 1941.

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