Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. was an American economist and politician who served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, the founder and director of the American Ambulance Field Service during World War I, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Abram Piatt Andrew circa 1920
Lieutenant Colonel A. Piatt Andrew Jr.
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
