Published In Images
AFS Ambulances in Convoy in the Blowing Sand
- Creator
- Cobb, John Candler, II, 1919-2016
- Creation Date
- 1943/03
- Who
- WWII driver
- When
- WWII
- Where
- North Africa
- license
Courtesy of the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs (AFS Archives.) Contact archives@afs.org for information regarding the rights and reproduction policies of this specific item.
Photo: John C. Cobb, courtesy AFS Archives, NY.
It was rough going. We ("Fox" Edwards and I) had a wounded German soldier on a stretcher in our ambulance. He was in great pain, so we had to go slowly. We fell behind our unit and found ourselves overtaken by the speeding, churning, and rumbling vehicles of the 10th Corps. All medical units were on the move, so there was no place to leave him. His condition looked pretty bad.