Newsreel footage of Red Cross workers in France in 1939. (britishpathe.com)
After three days in Belgium aiding the Belgian Red Cross in evacuating Brussels, three American Hospital Ambulance Transport ambulances, driven by two American and four French women, returned to Paris yesterday [May 18] morning. The convoy, commanded by Mme. Milanka Nussbaum, drove into Belgium in response to an appeal made by the Belgian Red Cross. Leaving Paris Tuesday night, the ambulances reached Brussels next morning where they took inhabitants from the city to the country to the west. Then they returned with their ambulances loaded with old and sick, children, and some French citizens. — New York Herald Tribune, European Edition, May 19, 1940