Friends of France: The Field Service of the American Ambulance Described by its Members (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916) was published by the American Ambulance Field Service during World…
Fifty years ago on September 14, 1964, Walt Disney received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian recognition. He received this award because his achievements had “made freedom…
This photograph depicts recovering French officers with American doctors and nurses in one of the rooms at the American Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. The American Ambulance Hospital was established…
This photograph features the arrival of 28 AFS Americans Abroad Summer Program Participants in Berlin-Lichterfelde, Germany in July 1954. Although the AFS post-war student exchange programs were founded in 1946,…
This photograph features A. Piatt Andrew at his home in Gloucester, Massachusetts, before World War I began. Prior to founding the American Field Service during the war, Andrew served as…
The AFS program in Indonesia started in 1956 when Wartomo Dwijoyuwono, together with Mohammad Diponegoro and Ibrahim Kadir were invited by the American government to participate in the Youth Specialists…
The American Field Service (AFS) ambulance and camion drivers were non-combatants in World War I, since their primary tasks involved carrying wounded soldiers and munitions. Although they were not directly…
AFS Returnee Nanci Leitch (USA to ESP, 1976-1977), is escorted to the chapel by her host father Vicente Saitua (left) and her natural father Kenneth Leitch (right.) Excerpt from “Air…
World War II Driver James Henry Brewster volunteered as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service (AFS) between 1943 and 1945. Brewster was posted to the C Platoon of…
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