AMBULANCES & MEDICAL VEHICLES OF THE U.S. ARMY
AMBULANCES & MEDICAL VEHICLES OF THE U.S. ARMY
AMBULANCES & MEDICAL VEHICLES OF THE U.S. ARMY
AMBULANCES & MEDICAL VEHICLES OF THE U.S. ARMY
AMBULANCES & MEDICAL VEHICLES OF THE U.S. ARMY
AMBULANCES & MEDICAL VEHICLES OF THE U.S. ARMY
AMBULANCES & MEDICAL VEHICLES OF THE U.S. ARMY
AMBULANCES & MEDICAL VEHICLES OF THE U.S. ARMY
AMBULANCES & MEDICAL VEHICLES OF THE U.S. ARMY
AMBULANCES & MEDICAL VEHICLES OF THE U.S. ARMY

AMBULANCES & MEDICAL VEHICLES OF THE U.S. ARMY

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Of all the belligerents of the Second World War, the United States of America established an unparalleled medical infrastructure. The efforts made to provide care for soldiers were without equivalent, and the means deployed surpassed anything that had previously existed.

 

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Within this organisation entrusted to the Medical Department, wheeled vehicles are indispensable and ambulances occupy a predominant place. This comprehensive work covers all medical vehicles employed in the USA and on the theatres of operations: technical trucks, ambulances, and all standard vehicles modified for battlefield evacuation.

Table of contents

1. Introduction.
2. Metropolitan Ambulances.
3. Multipatient Ambulances.
4. Field Litter Carriers.
5. Front Line Ambulances.
6. Medical Jeeps.
7. Rescue Teams.
8. Medical Trucks.
9. Reverse Lend-Lease.
10. Field Ambulances.
11. Markings.
12. At the Front.
13. Other Missions, Other Lives.
14. The American Red Cross.
15. The American Field Service.
16. Enigmas. Bibliography.

The author

Didier Andres, born in 1959 in Verviers, Belgium, has a passion for military history and American vehicles of the Second World War. He has assembled an impressive technical and photographic archive on the subject, which he has been happy to share through regular writings — books and magazines — for some twenty years. He has also published with Histoire & Collections a major work on Chevrolet military trucks.

Author 1
Didier Andrès
Publication date
May 2019
Pages
144
Illustrations
250 photos
Cover
Paperback
Language
French
Publisher
HISTORY & COLLECTIONS
EAN
9782352505099

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