
Caption | American ambulance waiting outside a bombed building in Bastogne, Belgium while a searcher looked for persons injured during the ten-day defense by US 101st Airborne Division, 26 Dec 1944 ww2dbase | ||||||||
Photographer | Unknown | ||||||||
Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Army Signal Corps | ||||||||
Link to Source | Link | ||||||||
Identification Code | 12010180 | ||||||||
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Photo Size | 927 x 712 pixels | ||||||||
Photos on Same Day | 26 Dec 1944 | ||||||||
Added By | David Stubblebine | ||||||||
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David Stubblebine says:
2 Aug 2023 12:33:14 PM
Note that this ambulance has no white star on the door. Ambulances were originally intended by the Geneva and Hague accords to be vehicles of mercy without being on one side of the conflict or the other. For this reason, the accords stated that ambulances should be marked with the “Geneva Cross” (red cross on white background) and without national markings. The WC54 ambulance were shipped from the factories marked this way but quite often, once they arrived in-theater, the motor pools marked them with white stars on the doors & hood, just like all other GI vehicles.

2 Aug 2023 12:33:14 PM
Note that this ambulance has no white star on the door. Ambulances were originally intended by the Geneva and Hague accords to be vehicles of mercy without being on one side of the conflict or the other. For this reason, the accords stated that ambulances should be marked with the “Geneva Cross” (red cross on white background) and without national markings. The WC54 ambulance were shipped from the factories marked this way but quite often, once they arrived in-theater, the motor pools marked them with white stars on the doors & hood, just like all other GI vehicles.
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24 Jan 2011 04:22:08 AM
It's in my town, the main place in Bastogne theatre of Battle of the buldge. Bastogne nuts City, the town of Gl Mc Auliffe