An old friend of ours at Wolverley camp has just fulfilled one of his ambitions, to own a World War Two American ambulance. Martin Collins sent us the photograph below and reveals a little of the history of his latest acquisition. The ambulance is a WC54 Dodge, built in 1942. It has recently taken part in Clint Eastwoods new film “Flags of our Fathers”, which was filmed in Iceland about the U.S. Marine Corps.
 

Martin Collins World War II WC54 Dodge American ambulance.

Lets hope it won’t be long before Martin brings it over to Wolverley Camp and lets us take some more photos of it.
 
Mike Webster.

“I had the best time staying with Mike and Lynn Webster; they were such gracious hosts to just an e-mail acquaintance. Lynn’s flower garden and Mike’s vegetable garden were doing so well it made me want to get back to my garden which has been neglected while I was in Florida taking care of my mother. I am sure Lynn would tell you that Mike and I talked constantly, and maybe obsessively, about Wolverley Camp and related topics. And last night, on the phone, my cousin Leo committed himself to make a donation for a memorial commemorating the 52nd, to be placed in St. John the Baptist Church in Wolverley.
 
The Webster’s patiently took me around the grounds where the 52nd General was, at Wolverley Camp 1943 to 1945. I had read so much about the Camp in the American nurse’s diary that I am trying to add to and get published. I had come to England partly to meet Mike after maybe three years e-mailing, and partly to take photos of places mentioned in the diary, to illustrate it. The grounds of the Park as it is now really seemed familiar and inhabited by ghosts of the doctors, nurses and enlisted men of the 52nd (and Bob Hope).
 
We also went to places outside Wolverley, where the diary writer had visited; Worcester Cathedral, Droitwich, Stratford, The Fox Inn at Stourton near Kinver where she ate (and where we had a meal), the Roman Catholic Church in Kidderminster which she and her sister occasionally attended, the high school where she attended an awards ceremony.
 
I left the Webster’s for a while, to visit York, Edinburgh (where the two nurses went on leave), and to Skye, and returned to their home before flying back to Syracuse, in Upstate New York, near the Canadian Border.
 
One special memory is an evening at the Queens Head in Wolverley, visiting with a group of the people who have been involved with Mikes project, and drinking Shandy, which I had read about in British murder mysteries, and gathered that it was sort of a lady’s drink. We talked for over two hours. Another was a visit to the Kidderminster Town Hall, where the diary writer had had a little adventure, hosted by Norman Tilt.
 
Now I have to come back! Perhaps when Mike’s book is published or when “my” diary is published or when the commemorative plaque is dedicated.
“I can’t wait!” 
 
Barbara Harris.

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D.Baldwin - DiGi-Masters.com Staff