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Smallwood, Joseph RBiblio.com

THE FACE OF NEWFOUNDLAND

SCHUBERT, Joseph RBiblio.com

Photo Album: 502nd U. S. Army Ambulance Service World War I.

1918422949France 1918. Softcover. Near Fine. Oblong small octavo. Measuring 11" x 7". String-tied flexible leather US Army Service Album with an illustration of soldier and eagle on the front cover. Contains 121 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 1" x 1" and 5½" x 8" with captions on the versos. Very good album with some edgewear and very good or better photographs. A photo album compiled by Private Joseph R. Shubert while serving with the 502nd U.S. Army Ambulance Service during World War I. The album begins with men posed alongside their ambulances "cars" with most signed by the driver followed by images of bombed out towns various weaponry men wading a river and working on their vehicles as well as German prisoners captured German artillery and a downed German airplane. Schubert captures all sides of the war including the temporary grave of Charlie Waterhouse presumably a member of the section evacuating gas attack casualties and a photo of men loading a covered body into the back of an ambulance likely a member of the section and possibly the aforementioned Waterhouse since ambulances were not used to transport the dead. Additionally three pieces of ephemera are included: a leave slip and two troop ship berthing assignments likely from the trip over and the return. The 502nd was the second of three ambulance sections raised from members of Philadelphia's Stoneman's Fellowship a philanthropic fraternal organization that provided first aid and ambulance services. Its commander was 1st Lt. Donald Hathaway the signer of Schubert's leave slip. The 502nd arrived in France and served in the defense of the Aisne River at Chateau-Thierry the Aisne-Marne offensive the Meuse-Argonne offensive and the Woevre Sector offensive supporting the 2nd 26th 28th 42nd and 79th Divisions at various times. Three members of the section were killed during the war and 16 were wounded. Following the Armistice the 502nd served in occupied Germany and Strasbourg until it returned home in May 1919. An excellent visual record of an important but sparsely documented U.S. Army support service during the First World War. unknown

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Rose, Joseph RBiblio.com

American Wartime Transportation

195382308New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1953. Presumed First Edition First printing. Hardcover. Good. xi 3 290 pages. Footnotes. Tabular information. Index. Front board weak and restrengthened with glue. Endpaper maps Map of U.S. Railroads Classified According to Capacity and Relative Importance and Map of Principal Waterways of the United States. Topics covered include Transport Organization for War; The Railroad Achievement; Railway Passenger Traffic; Export-Import Traffic; Transport by Open-Top Cars; Grain Transport by Rail; Refrigerator Car Movement; Transport of Petroleum; Motor Transport--The Rationing Program; Motor Transport--The Conservation Program for Commercial Vehicles; Domestic Waterway Transport; Domestic Air Transport; Conclusions. Also includes Conclusions. During World War II the U.S. government did not find it necessary to take over the railroads or other carriers except for short periods as a result of labor difficulties. The war demonstrated that centralized direction of the nation's transport could be achieved without government operation. This accomplishment was possible because the lessons of 1917 were well learned and measures were adopted by both the railroads and the government to avert the experience of the first war. Although these measures did not constitute a solution to transport problems during the war they did serve a most valuable purpose. They prevented a repetition of the collapse of 1917 by furnishing a nucleus from which evolved a comprehensive system of transport control and coordination. Discusses mostly the transport of goods throughout America during the war what with gas rationing and all. Covers rail water and motor transport. The author was at the time an Associate Professor of Transportation at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce University of Pennsylvania. Additionally he was the Historical Officer of the Office of Defense Transportation ODT during World War II and he initiated and supervised most of the writing of the account of the activities of that office entitled Civilian War Transport A Record of the Control of Domestic Operation 1941-1946 Government Printing Office 1948. This work is more comprehensive than the former work in that it covers the operation of all domestic carriers and of the numerous governmental agencies concerned with domestic wartime transportation in addition to the ODT. Furthermore the present work was sponsored by the Social Science Research Council rather than being a descriptive narrative it is critical and objective. The former was undocumented and this work is fully documented. Thomas Y. Crowell Company hardcover

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