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World War II

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AFS Archives, AFS Janus, History

AFS Janus: Fall 2016 Issue

This issue of the AFS Janus features the fascinating story of Julian Allen and his long involvement with AFS, from the first year of the organization’s existence in World War…

Aug16
AFS Archives, Archival Spotlight, History

Marsh’s Marauders, 1945

This photograph shows AFS volunteer William Boardman Kinter waiting on the Kalaw Staircase for casualties in Burma in 1945. Kinter and his AFS friends referred to themselves as “Marsh’s Marauders,”…

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 spent months on the Italian front with 485 Company, and…

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 their trips overseas during World War II. Behind a man…

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 Ponte Vecchio bridge during World War II. The Germans destroyed…

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, 1941. After discovering he could not enlist with the U.S.…

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