Nasiriyah, Iraq ? An American flag folded across her chest, Pfc. Jessica Lynch left Iraq on a stretcher Wednesday after U.S. commandos, acting on a CIA tip, rescued the prisoner of war. But the operation also brought sad news — the troops found 11 corpses, some believed to be Americans.

Lynch, a 19-year-old Army supply clerk, arrived at a U.S. air base in southwestern Germany on a C-17 transport plane late Wednesday for treatment at a U.S. military medical center.

From Germany, she spoke with her family at their home in Palestine, W.Va., in a 15-minute telephone call.

“She’s real spirited; she hasn’t eaten in eight days, and she’s hungry,” her father, Greg Lynch, said. “She wants some food.”

Randy Coleman, a military spokesman in West Virginia, said she had fractures in both her legs, and her family said she also had injured her arm. U.S. officials in Kuwait said earlier she had two broken legs, a broken arm and at least one gunshot wound.

Her father said she would be transferred to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington “as soon as possible.”

Lynch was captured by the Iraqis more than a week ago after her maintenance unit made a wrong turn and was ambushed in Nasiriyah. Twelve other members of her unit were also feared captured; five are officially listed as POWs.

Following an intelligence tip about Lynch’s whereabouts, U.S. special operations forces made their way behind Iraqi lines and seized Lynch from the Saddam Hospital under cover of darkness late Tuesday, American officials said.

U.S. Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch is carried on a stretcher off a C-17 military plane at the U.S. air base in Ramstein, southern Germany. Lynch was rescued by U.S. special forces Tuesday, more than a week after she and other members of her unit were captured in Iraq.

“I thought at first it was an April Fools’ joke,” said her father. “I thought this was a cruel joke. I can put up with most things, but not that. They assured me, no, it’s not a joke.”

The operation also found 11 bodies — two in a hospital morgue and nine buried outside the building, said Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, a U.S. Central Command spokesman. He said U.S. forces were led to the graves by someone who had been taken into custody.

“We have reason to believe some of them were Americans,” said Navy Capt. Frank Thorp, another Central Command spokesman. He said the military has not confirmed whether they were members of Lynch’s unit, the 507th Maintenance Company.

The 507th was attacked March 23 during some of the earliest fighting in Nasiriyah. Not long afterward, five of Lynch’s fellow soldiers showed up in Iraqi television footage being asked questions by their captors. They included Army Pfc. Patrick Miller, 23, of Park City, Kan., near Wichita.