"An ambulance is not how you got from where you got hit to the aid station. That was done by your own buddies, carried on their backs or on improvised litters. You think medics carried stretchers into combat? If your buddies got you far enough back, then maybe you got a ride in a jeep, a deuce-and-half or a tank, but ambulances didn't go out an pick up the wounded from the front. No, after triage at the aid station, you might get a ride in an ambulance to the field hospital."
Corporal Pete Riordan, 101st Airborne
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"As a rule, we tried to respect the Geneva Convention and did not fire on medical personnel and ambulances if they were clearly marked. However, if the troops saw Amerikaners firing on our own medical personnel when they went out to treat the wounded, well"
Panzer Untergefreiter Willi Steiner, XIX Panzer Corps
