5/22/2023 0 Comments Soul Awakened by Jean MurrayNo one had ever recovered from such massive burns. The fire caused third–degree burns over 70 percent of Woods’s body, and it erased his face. An error by Woods’s copilot caused their plane to explode on takeoff. Woods was assigned to fly the “Hump” over the Himalayas-from Kurmitola, India, to Lüliang, China-ferrying fuel to the Flying Tigers of the Chinese Army, who were fighting the Japanese. On that day, December 23, 1944, a 22–year–old airman, Charles Woods, met with a devastating accident. By a remarkable coincidence, though, the story began for me exactly ten years earlier. The world’s first successful transplant of an internal organ from one living person to another took place on December 23, 1954, at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, in Boston.
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