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Red Cross

Post by Dollisdad » Wed Oct 20, 2021 10:45 pm

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Re: Red Cross

Post by Dollisdad » Wed Oct 20, 2021 10:47 pm

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Re: Red Cross

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Thu Oct 21, 2021 12:49 am

I especially like the next to last photo. Am'n ambulance on the road to Verdun.
I think it was in the 1927 silent classic "Wings" that mentioned Verdun a few times. The film has been credited with some of the most realistic battlefield and airborne battles ever filmed by Hollywood! It is a film that depicts wartime as less than glorious, yet very heroic, and the harsh realities of the experience. It shines well above being simply a silent classic. Everyone should see it, and view it with the respect it truly deserves.

To see this photo above places an additional point about the destruction of wartime. An exceptional picture. Far more important than all the staged ambulance photos.

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Re: Red Cross

Post by Kaiser » Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:44 am

That fifth picture is the ambulance that George King III recreated to tour France with in 2014 for the World War One commemorations, here's a picture of him at the wheel of his ambulance somewhere in France at that tour :
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Re: Red Cross

Post by Kaiser » Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:48 am

The fourth picture is of the standardised U.S.Army ambulance model of 1917, as in the following official photo from 1917 ;
The standard U.S. model M1917 was a simplified version based on the ambulance that was developed by coachbuilder Kellner of Paris for the volunteer A.F.S. (American Field Service) who operated ambulances on the Western Front from early 1915
Both are easily identified; the Kellner bodies are built up from planks while the M1917 sides are one board with vertical stiffeners
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Re: Red Cross

Post by YellowTRacer » Sun Oct 24, 2021 12:37 am

A couple of your pictures reminded me of our WW1 Red Cross unit taken several years ago at the Presidio in San Francisco on Veterans Day. The truck is our 1920 Ford. The "crew" is L to R, Larry Streeter Sr. U.S. Army Karen Archer Women's Motor Corp, Tom Bertino wounded U.S. Army, Karen Erceg Women's Motor Corp, Bob Hillman U.S. Army. None of these folks are actual real military veterans.

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Re: Red Cross

Post by perry kete » Sun Oct 24, 2021 7:51 am

In the second picture where the ladies are standing in front of the Touring I like the "Blackout" headlight covers shaped like the red cross symbol.
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Re: Red Cross

Post by NU2theT » Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:22 am

Great pictures Tom, I just gave blood this morning and drove my Fordor. Extreme need eveywhere, if you can please donate.

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