AFS Intercultural Programs
AFS Intercultural Programs is an international youth exchange organization. It consists of over 50 independent, not-for-profit organizations, each with its own network of volunteers, professionally staffed offices, volunteer board of directors and website. In 2015, 12,578 students traveled abroad on an AFS cultural exchange program, between 99 countries. The U.S.-based partner, AFS-USA, sends more than 1,100 U.S. students abroad and places international students with more than 2,300 U.S. families each year. As of 2022, more than 500,000 people have gone abroad with AFS and over 100,000 former AFS students live in the U.S.
Shot down German plane from AFS Lewis Burwell account personal letters from the front
The remains of two ambulances destroyed by German shell-fire brought to Paris
21 ambulances in the yard at 21 Rue Raynouard in Paris
The American Ambulance Field Service convoy near Dombasle-en-Argonne in 1917
Robert Bacon was an American statesman and diplomat. He was also a leading banker and businessman who worked closely with Secretary of State Elihu Root, 1905–1909, and served as United States Secretary of State from January to March 1909.
Robert Bacon
Portrait by Joaquín Sorolla, 1909.
General Tasker H. Bliss, formerly the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, is greeted by Major Robert Bacon upon the latter's arrival in France, July 19, 1918.
Colonel Robert Bacon and Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig on the St.-Quentin Bridge, viewing the first break in the Hindenburg Line which was made by the 30th and 27th Divisions of the U.S. Army serving with the BEF.