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WWII Vet Finds Ambulance He Drove


Subdeacon Joe

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http://www.abqjournal.com/747119/news/vet-finds-wwii-ambulance-he-drove.html

 

 

Fast forward to last summer. An usher at Grasser’s church told him about the World War II ambulance at the military history museum, then located on Lomas Boulevard. The two visited the museum.

When Misel showed them the ambulance, Grasser recognized the numbers on its bumper. Those numbers indicated the ambulance had been property of Grasser’s unit, and Ambulance No. 14, the one he drove.

“The chances of that are nil,” he said.

Misel said a photo of Grasser with the ambulance during the war shows the last three digits of a serial number on the vehicle’s hood. Those same digits are on the hood of the museum’s ambulance.

Santa Fe collector Nat Holzer, a World War II Pacific Theater veteran, gave it to the museum.

“This was part of his collection, and we don’t know where he got it,” Misel said.

Holzer died in 2008. His children are looking for the ambulance’s title to learn more about its history.

Since discovering the ambulance, Grasser has appeared publicly with it, most recently at a gun show this month, and shared his story.

“God knows, I’m no hero,” he said. “I’m just the lucky guy who outlived all the others.”

 

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