In 1918, The Reflector reported a fund raising program to purchase and send an “ambulance” to France to aid the US wounded. The program was requested by a former student in the medical corps in WW1. The school raised $1600 to purchase one in france. The photo below tells a different story. The signs on the side of the truck (in French) translate to: Military Medical Service, Mobile Hospital Service, and Sterilization Truck. The mobile hospital or “Auto-Chir” was developed by the French and adopted by the US medical department. Using Large tents and portable equipment packed into specialized trucks; an entire surgical hospital could move to the front lines. There was an X-Ray truck and a Sterilization truck that had a boiler for hot water and steam to sterilize surgical equipment. Even though the “Ambulance” never transported wounded, it provided vital sterilization equipment that saved countless lives.