This image shows Hollywood movie star Robert Montgomery standing with fellow ambulance driver Stuart Benson in front of an American Field Service (AFS) ambulance in Paris, France. Montgomery (born Henry…
The picture shows Marketta Mattila (second from right), an AFS Participant from Kankaanpää, Finland, standing with her new host family on the day of her arrival in Huntington Beach, California,…
This image shows Philip Glorieux of Irvington, NJ, boxing an unidentified French mechanic one morning in 1917. Glorieux served alongside the French military as an American Field Service (AFS) ambulance…
Toward the end of World War II, American Field Service ambulance drivers in 567 Company were stationed at an embarkation camp in Pisa, Italy, awaiting movement orders. The ambulance drivers…
This photograph of famous playwright and screenwriter Sidney Coe Howard (1891-1939) was taken in France during World War I, and was found in John C. B. Moore’s wartime scrapbook. Howard…
This photograph shows President John F. Kennedy walking to the microphone before addressing AFS students at the White House in July 1961. Kennedy spoke to AFS students in Washington, D.C.…
In this issue, we feature AFS Life Trustee Ward B. Chamberlin, Jr., one of the most stalwart supporters of AFS. We pay tribute to Ward’s exemplary record of service to…
In this issue we celebrate the life and accomplishments of Irving Penn, one of our most famous AFS ambulance drivers, who sadly passed away this past October. For our feature…