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Katina
Some brief notes about the last days of RAF fighters in the first Greek campaign.
PETER SAW HER FIRST.
She was sitting on a stone, quite still, with her hands resting on her lap. She was staring
vacantly ahead, seeing nothing, and all around, up and down the little street, people were running
backward and forward with buckets of water, emptying them through the windows of the burning
houses.
Across the street on the cobblestones, there was a dead boy. Someone had moved his body close
in to the side so that it would not be in the way.
A little farther down an old man was working on a pile of stones and rubble1. One by one he was
carrying the stones away and dumping them to the side. Sometimes he would bend down and peer
into the ruins, repeating a name over and over again.
All around there was shouting and running and fires and buckets of water and dust. And the girl
sat quietly on the stone, staring ahead, not moving. There was blood running down the left side of
her face. It ran down from her forehead and dropped from her chin on to the dirty print dress she
was wearing.
Peter saw her and said, ‘Look at that little girl.’
We went up to her and Fin2 put his hand on her shoulder, bending down to examine the cut.
‘Looks like a piece of shrapnel,’ he said. ‘She ought to see the Doc.’
Peter and I made a chair with our hands and Fin lifted her up on to it. We started back through
the streets and out towards the aerodrome, the two of us walking a little awkwardly, bending
down, facing our burden. I could feel Peter’s fingers clasping tightly in mine and I could feel the
buttocks of the little girl resting lightly on my wrists. I was on the left side and the blood was
dripping down from her face on to the arm of my flying suit, running down the waterproof3 cloth
on to the back of my hand. The girl never moved or said anything.
Fin said, ‘She’s bleeding rather fast. We’d better walk a bit quicker.’
I couldn’t see much of her face because of the blood, but I could tell that she was lovely. She
had high cheekbones and large round eyes, pale blue like an autumn sky, and her hair was short
and fair. I guessed she was about nine years old.
This was in Greece in early April, 1941, at Paramythia. Our fighter squadron was stationed on a
muddy field near the village. We were in a deep valley and all around us were the mountains. The
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