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Wounded CBS reporter returns to U.S.
 Kimberly Dozier speaks with medical staff Wednesday before being put aboard a plane in Germany. YOUR E-MAIL ALERTSRAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (CNN) -- CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier arrived Wednesday in the United States, where she will receive further treatment for wounds suffered in a Baghdad car bombing last week. Dozier landed at Andrews Air Force Base and is being transported to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, according to a statement from CBS News. Shortly after noon (6 a.m. ET), Dozier and several U.S. soldiers were loaded onto a military transport plane at Ramstein Air Base, near Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, where she was treated after the May 29 attack. The flight took off at 1:20 p.m. Central European Time and landed in the U.S. at 4:20 p.m. ET. The 39-year-old reporter suffered shrapnel wounds to the head and severe injuries to her legs in the bombing. Her British cameraman and soundman were killed, along with an Iraqi translator and a U.S. soldier. Several other troops were wounded. Video showed Dozier on a stretcher, alert and talking, as she was being transported onto the military transport plane. "The swelling of Kimberly's face has decreased significantly, she had the first physical therapy session on her legs and she had her hair washed," CBS said Tuesday in a statement. "She is in good spirits." The information came from Linda Mason, CBS' senior vice president for standards and special projects, who has been with Dozier since she arrived at Landstuhl. Dozier underwent an operation last week to begin repairing her legs, and CBS has said she had been taken off her ventilator and was talking. The group Reporters Without Borders says that 97 journalists and media assistants have been killed during the Iraq war. About 63 journalists were killed in Vietnam from 1955 to 1975, according to the organization. The Committee to Protect Journalists says 73 journalists and 27 media support workers -- most of them Iraqi -- have been killed in the Iraq war. CNN's Chris Burns contributed to this report. 
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