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The NRH Foundation now has a limited number this booklet in stock with the proceeds of the sale raising funds to support the Hospital.
Marking the 80th anniversary of this spectacular event, one of the NRH long standing volunteers, Bill Nelson, has composed a commemoration booklet, in collaboration with with Wicklow County Council to remember and retell this remarkable Wicklow-Paris Story.
The booklet tells the very unique story of the historical events that took place on 12th August 1946 when a Junkers 52 aircraft took off from Paris with a group of French Girl Guides, bound for Dublin on the invitation of the Irish Girl Guides. The aircraft had twenty-six people on board, including the crew. Enroute the aircraft became lost while flying above the Dublin and Wicklow mountains and crash landed on Djouce Mountain. An epic rescue operation followed involving Gardaí, mountain rescue and many local volunteers. Miraculously all on board survived.