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1939 NATIONAL GUARD OF THE UNITED STATES

STATE OF WISCONSIN

MEDICAL DEPT. DETACHMENT 127th INFANTRY

SCANNED FROM YEARBOOK/PICTORIAL

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1938 NATIONAL GUARD OF THE UNITED STATES

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

COMPANY "E" 120th MEDICAL REGIMENT

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA

SCANNED FROM YEARBOOK/PICTORIAL

 

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FIRST ARMY MANEUVERS

ST. LAWRENCE CO. NEW YORK

1940

SCANNED FROM SOUVENIR BOOK

 

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Folks, these photos are looking great! Please keep them coming! Remember, all vehicles count here. So if you have photos of aircraft, ships, etc. used to transport the wounded or sick, please post!

 

Here is an ambulance train that was built during WWI for the American Army by the British for use in France.

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Well if all apply.

 

Fort Lewis Sentinal

 

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Fort Lewis Sentinal

 

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THE ARMORED COMMAND

A PICTORIAL REVIEW OF THE ARMORED COMMAND

LAST DATE NOTED IN MAGAZINE 1943

SCANNED FROM MAG.

 

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Postcard

 

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101st Airborne Medics

 

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TR 405-90 FIELD LITTER CARRIER MODEL 1921

 

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My Litter Carrier at the 2008 Portland MVPA Convention

 

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Craig

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American Field Service SSU 14 "Friends of France" ambulance.

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Norton Harjes SSU 7 Ambulance

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American Field Service Section Three circa 1915 - 1916.

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United States Army Ambulance Service men in Italy - 1918

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Unknown US Army Ambulance men "Somewhere in France" circa 1918

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The fortunate few who survived the sinking and the shark attacks.....

 

Loss of USS Indianapolis, July 1945

Indianapolis' survivors en route to a hospital following their rescue, circa early August 1945.

Ambulance in the background is marked "U.S.N. Base Hospital No. 20", which was located on Pelelieu.

Photograph was released 14 August 1945.

 

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Photo #: 80-G-490322 Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives

 

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Loss of USS Indianapolis, July 1945

Survivors of USS Indianapolis (CA-35) are brought ashore from USS Tranquillity (AH-14) at Guam, 8 August 1945. They are being placed in Ambulances for immediate transfer to local hospitals.

Photographed by PhoM1c J.G. Mull.

 

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Photo #: 80-G-K-5988 (Color) Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives

 

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Photo #: NH 97015

Evacuation of Hungnam, Korea, December 1950

A U.S. Marine Corps' ambulance jeep is hoisted aboard ship at Hungnam, North Korea, 12 December 1950.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

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U. S. Navy Ambulance Boat No. 1 (later YH-1), 1919-1939.

 

U. S. Navy Ambulance Boat No. 1, a 54-ton, 65-foot wooden-hulled craft propelled by a four-cylinder gasoline engine, was built at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California. In November 1918 the Navy Department had placed an order with Mare Island for ten additional 54-ton motor tugs (six others had been ordered earlier in 1918 from Mare Island and Pearl Harbor), but soon decided to complete three of the later hulls, Motor Tugs Nos. 97, 100, and 101 as Ambulance Boats Nos. 1-3 respectively. This change took effect before the launching of the first unit, Ambulance Boat No. 1 (ex-Motor Tug No. 97) on 24 July 1919. The ambulance boats received their own hull type symbol, YH, when the Navy implemented its standard hull classification system in July 1920. Ambulance Boat No. 1 (later YH-1) entered service on 18 August 1919 and served for her entire career in the San Francisco Bay area (her two sisters were both transferred to Norfolk, Virginia upon completion). She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in December 1938 and sold in March 1939.

 

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Photo #: NH 41601

U. S. Navy Ambulance Boat No. 1

Lowering a stretcher containing a patient through the starboard side of the booby hatch aft of the pilot house. Photographed at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 31 October 1919. Note the stretchers already suspended under the port side of the hatch.

Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps)

 

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The color balance is off on this old photo, the ambulance is navy grey

 

1967 Pontiac Navy Ambulance (Superior Sovereign on a Bonneville chassis)

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Photo #: NH 67707

 

USS Comfort (hospital ship, later AH-3)

 

Unloading wounded soldiers in a U.S. port upon returning from France, December 1918.

 

Note the WWI era USN ambulances on the pier

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This is out of the Dec 1944 issue of National Geographic. It was taken in my hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Sorry about the poor quality, but it is a photocopy of the photo. If anyone has the Dec '44 issue, please feel free to scan and post the image!

 

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Well if all apply.

 

Fort Lewis Sentinal

 

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Fort Lewis Sentinal

 

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THE ARMORED COMMAND

A PICTORIAL REVIEW OF THE ARMORED COMMAND

LAST DATE NOTED IN MAGAZINE 1943

SCANNED FROM MAG.

 

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Postcard

 

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101st Airborne Medics

 

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TR 405-90 FIELD LITTER CARRIER MODEL 1921

 

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My Litter Carrier at the 2008 Portland MVPA Convention

 

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Craig

 

 

 

 

I find the 2nd picture weird. It happens to be a first production WC 9. The weird thing about it is on the rear doors the pieces of wood on the bottom. Through all my research from owning the 2 following WC 9 productions and also the WC 18 weren't suppose to have this update but WC 27s and WC 54s only had them

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A C-46 evacuating from Saipan (bottom) and an armored ambulance that I know nothing about, but it looks tough. (I think it is U.S., but it also has a British look to me).

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more varied ambulances

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Some WWI

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119th Infantry Regt. of 30th Division medics working in Belgium during Bulge action & WWI shot (maybe Brits, but nice shot either way).

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A few more for fun... CW ambulance shop & ambulance.

 

All photos collected from a number of sources over the years or taken personally.

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Some DMZ dustoffs

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DMZ & Desert dustoff

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some more...

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some air ambulances fro the Ft. Rucker museum.

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A WC-54 (I think) beside a Liberator at the Hill AFB museum.

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some more

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A C-46 evacuating from Saipan (bottom) and an armored ambulance that I know nothing about, but it looks tough. (I think it is U.S., but it also has a British look to me).

The Armored ambulance is a WWII Canadian Chevrolet C15TA,quite a rare beast!.

 

Matt.

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Ambulance Train at Harewood Hospital - US Civil War.

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Civil War ambulance crew during a drill. Note the great looking Zouave uniforms!

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A surviving ambulance at an unknown museum.

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Another Civil War view of an ambulance driver with his team of horses. I also wanted to add that the American Civil War was the first war where a strategic method was devised for gathering the wounded. Military medicine made leaps and bounds during this war, in many different ways.

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Here is one that a member of our club is building on a Model T that he has had for a very long time.post-63031-1332086266.jpg

Sweet, I am doing the same, but have not gotten that far yet, what is he using for plans? Did he find a source of the correct thickness of "cardboard" for the body?

Best

Gus

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Here are some pics of my "Meat Wagon". It's a 1985 M1010. It is pretty much all original. I do have all of the original BII for it as well as the red cross panels.

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