Curtiss Eagle Ambulance – By the end of World war I, the US Army realized the need to transport the wounded by air. In 1918 Maj Nelson E. Driver and Capt William C. Ocker converted a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny biplane into an airplane ambulance by modifying the rear cockpit to accommodate a standard Army stretcher carrying an injured person in a semireclined seat.

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