UMass Amherst Produces Documentary on WWI Volunteer Ambulance Drivers

02/20/2009

The new historical documentary, "Model T's to War: American Ambulances on the Western Front 1914-1918," produced by filmmakers from UMass Amherst, will have its premiere television broadcast on WGBY, Channel 57 in Springfield on Thursday, March 5 at 8 p.m. The hour-long documentary film was made by Edward Klekowski, an emeritus professor at UMass Amherst, Elizabeth Wilda, of the UMass Amherst News Office, and Libby Klekowski. It tells the previously unknown stories of American volunteer ambulance drivers who served during World War I on the Western Front in France from 1914-18.