Posts Tagged ‘Siege Of Paris’
When thinking of air ambulance transportation, most people think only of soldiers being transported out of battlefields in the last 40 or so years. Air ambulance service actually started many years before that, in the mid 1800’s to be exact. The first written record of the word air ambulance was in 1866 when shipwrecked sailors were rescued by hot air balloon. The first official use of an air ambulance was in Paris during 1870. Wounded soldiers were evacuated during the Siege of Paris.
