PDF⋙ Ambulance to the Front!: My Grandfather in WWI Ambulance Section SSU510 by Stephen H. Gentner
Ambulance to the Front!: My Grandfather in WWI Ambulance Section SSU510 by Stephen H. Gentner Ambulance to the Front!: My Grandfather in WWI Ambulance Section SSU510 by Stephen H. Gentner PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Ambulance to the Front! chronicles the life of my grandfather, Albert William Gentner, and his participation in World War One. He left Harvard Law School in 1917 to volunteer and become an ambulance driver in the United States Army Ambulance Service (U.S.A.A.S.) Along with 44 of his fellow Harvard men, he trained down at Camp Crane in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to prepare for Front Line deployment with the French Army. As John R. Smucker wrote in his book chronicling the U.S.A.A.S., Remember that at that time we were leaving home for France in six weeks, that the average life of an ambulance driver was 14 to 33 days, that the targets on German rifle ranges were Red Crosses. Yes it was grief and tears when our boys went off to war. The French Government had asked that America und...