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American Field Service ? " We give you first some letters from Headquarters in Cairo; a letter from General A. Sice, head of the Free French Forces in Africa; from Alan Stuyvesant, who is doing such a splendid job in Libya with the Free French Unit, and whose brother Lewis, recently serving there with him, is now in our office (recuperating from past wounds) doing an equally good job. He interviews the young men who daily flood our office with inquiries about joining as drivers.
From Col. Ralph Richmond to Mr. Galatti:
"AFS. ST. GHQ. MEF.
29th March, 1942.
"The sections are organized on paper into sub sections of five cars each. In actual operation, cars are assigned to CCS stations according to the needs of each. One CCS may require only a single ambulance, whereas another takes nine or ten. Some of the stations are very far apart; in one case over four hundred miles from its own company headquarters. It has been a good experience for the men, they have enjoyed it and both the British and the natives are enthusiastic about them and the way they are doing their work. One British unit has asked to have the A.F.S. permanently attached to it.
"Alan Stuyvesant is in town to collect his ten men who arrived today; they are: Stratton, Esten, Krusi, Kulak, Wood, Tichenor, Semple, Greenough, Hammond, Hirchberg. He seems pleased with them. They are all good men". "
www.ourstory.info  Laurent Laloup le mercredi 17 octobre 2007 Contribution au livre ouvert de Alan Stuyvesant | |
