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Show PATIENT IS SAVED BY AIR AMBULANCE SAN FRANClSrO, July 24. An am- bulance trip believed to be a record ! was Diade from Crissy field here to a , P'jint in Solano county and return. Tli distance. 120 miles, was covered In 65 j minutes, by an air ambulance. The patient brouRht baek was Sor- l geant Fred V. Kollerman. Ninety-first aoro squadron, who had fallen while on an aerial trip from Mather field near Sacramento His saine was injured. in-jured. Captain A. W. Smith, known as the flying doctor." at Crissy field, drove the air ambulance and other medical officers said that Kollerman now had a fair chance to live which would not have been his had he been subjected to the Jolts and delays of any other i means of transportation to a hospl-tal. |