![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet his character comes through more in what he does not say. “I read Aidan’s memoir, which is a fascinating and engrossing account of his story but because of his genuine, self-effacing, modesty - it’s often short on detail. Jackson, who first heard about MacCarthy over 16 years ago when working in a bar in Cork city where an RAF veteran mentioned a West Cork doctor who survived Nagasaki, believes MacCarthy, who died in 1995, was naturally inclined to play down his own bravery. Then came a frighteningly loud but rather flat explosion which was followed by a blast of hot air… All this was followed by an eerie silence," wrote MacCarthy in his own memoir, A Doctor's War. "There then followed a blue flash accompanied by a very bright magnesium-type flare. ![]()
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