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AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

Edward J. Kelley, 1916

On the evening of September 23, 1916, AFS volunteer ambulance driver Roswell Sanders took Edward J. Kelley, a newly-arrived volunteer,…

Aug16
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Marsh’s Marauders, 1945

This photograph shows AFS volunteer William Boardman Kinter waiting on the Kalaw Staircase for casualties in Burma in 1945. Kinter…

Richard N. Hall, undated. – Copy
AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

The Enduring Legacy of Richard Nelville Hall

Richard Nelville Hall volunteered for AFS immediately after graduating from Dartmouth College in 1915. In a letter to his parents,…

IOM_May16
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From AFS to the Lafayette Escadrille

After a recent renovation, the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial was rededicated on April 20, 2016 in the presence of dignitaries from…

Peter Melitz, Allen Emmert, Conrad Wilson of B Platton, 485 Coy in italy. Photograph by Irving Penn. Ca. 1944-45
AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

My Grandfather, the Pacifist

Conrad Wilson, a Quaker and conscientious objector, volunteered as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service in 1944. He…

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AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

Obstacle Dodging, 1917

During World War I, many AFS ambulance drivers went to the May-en-Multien training camp, which was created to train incoming…

ME32 Christmas aboard the El Nil, 1942
AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

Makeshift Christmas Tree, 1942

The photograph depicted above shows AFS unit ME 32 celebrating Christmas aboard the S.S. El Nil, an Egyptian ship, on…

View from the Ponte Vecchio
AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

View from the Ponte Vecchio, 1945

The photograph depicted above shows an American Field Service (AFS) ambulance driver looking at ruins in Florence, Italy from the…

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AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

Khaki the Dog, 1915

Joshua Gabriel Baker Campbell enlisted with the transportation units at the American Ambulance Hospital in 1914, with a group that…

Sawyer
AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

Belt of a Thousand Stitches, 1944

Thomas M. Sawyer was teaching English at a school in Honolulu, Hawaii, when Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7,…

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