M38CDN Ambulance

[Lionelgee]

Hello All,

The following information is NOT specific to Canadian Jeep Ambulances. However, it could be useful to have a look at anyway.

Steve Turchet (Updated: Sep 23, 2021; Original: Mar 20, 2019 wrote the following article for Military Trader Vehicles ...

"Willys to the Rescue! Military Jeep Ambulances: A salute to the various types of jeep ambulances manufactured by Willys Overland and Kaiser Jeep that spanned the decades between WWII and the Vietnam War"

The article is loaded with photographs of Jeep ambulances. The article also outlines a link to General Motors Holden to modify Jeeps as ambulance for the Pacific theater.

On the Pacific front, the jeep’s capabilities as an ambulance were quickly recognized by the U.S. Marine Corps. The General Motors-Holden factory in Melbourne, Australia, modified Marine jeeps for dedicated ambulance use. Today, these specialized ambulances are referred to as “Holden Jeeps.”

Click on the link to the Australian War Memorial https://www.awm.gov.au. Then look in the top right hand corner for the "search". Clicking on this will bring you to the Search page and then type in the keywords Jeep Ambulance and there is a range of over 100 photographs, more than 5 films and some drawings. Just be aware that the keyword search does not always bring precise results. Sometimes there may be results that feature a Jeep and later on an Ambulance that could be an ambulance bus.

Just had a quick search on YouTube and found a link that explains the Australia contracts for modifying the Jeep ambulances NMMC WWII Iwo Jima Ambulance Jeep accessed 24th January 2025 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ9ZSBdfUks

Unless you like seeing a film of the tyres of different military vehicles drive by - skip to the 2:00 minute mark of this video ... WWII USMC Holden ambulance jeep on Iwo Jima COLOR (silent) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDBxvT54ZOc

Enjoy!

Kind regards
Lionel