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Harry Gregg put his life on the line when he went back into the wreckage at Munich........"I heard a child's cry from the plane. Captain Thain came running around my side of the cockpit and shouted 'Run, it's going to blow up'. The people running shouted again `Run!' and I shouted, `Come back, there's people alive in here' and they just kept going. I got into the plane near where I heard a voice. I was frightened of what I would find. Eventually, under a lot of rubbish I found the baby. I crawled out and started to run with it."
The child's name was Vesna Lukic, just 22 months old at the time. She was travelling with her mother, Vera, the wife of a Yugoslavian diplomat. Gregg risked his life to save the crying child, but he wasn't finished. With the smell of fuel hanging in the air and flames licking the fuselage of the plane, Gregg returned to save Vera Lukic, as well as teammates Bobby Charlton and Dennis Viollet. Many more could have died in Munich that night if it wasn't for Harry Gregg.

Replied: 5th Jul 2021 at 17:30

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