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Injured Team Makes Its Way Back Home

ABC news anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt left Germany earlier this week on a military plane bound for the United States, where they will receive further treatment for their injuries from a recent bomb explosion in Iraq. A medical evacuation plane left the U.S. base at Ramstein on Tuesday afternoon carrying the two journalists and 28 U.S. service personnel, several of whom were injured in Iraq.

Woodruff, 44, and Vogt, 46, were assigned with the 4th Infantry Division but traveling in an Iraqi convoy about 12 miles north of Baghdad when the device exploded last weel. The plane carried Woodruff and Vogt to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where the two were to be taken to the brain injury center of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.

Members of the 86th Air Medical Evacuation Squadron, based in Ramstein, were attending to the patients in the air, a U.S. military spokeswoman said at the time. Earlier reports had noted the severity of their wounds, and that the armored personnel carrier they were in had thin armor at a certain place in the vehicle they were in at the time of the attack.