By Adam Benson
Norwich Bulletin
NORWICH, Conn. — As a newly restored piece of forgotten World War I history rolled through a bay at American Ambulance’s Norwich headquarters on Saturday afternoon, Irene King felt a tinge of pride.
“I’m so proud. So happy,” King, 95, said. Born in 1917, five days after American forces entered the conflict with other Allied nations, King has a tie to the 1916 Model T ambulance now taking up residence in the city that is direct and profound.
Her son, George King III, of Franklin, has spent nearly five years on a quest to bring the story of wartime U.S. volunteer ambulance drivers to light. American volunteers evacuated 500,000 wounded French soldiers from the trenches to field hospitals in 1,200 Model T vehicles during the course of the war.
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