Sanitäter Tragbahre (stretcher)

[Jan B]

Thanks Paul and Tony for your kind replies!

Tom, indeed, here are some examples of improvised transportation (pictures copyright "Der Sanitätsdienst des Heeres" by Buchner)

two sticks and some feldbluse

[Jan B]

...or a simple blanket.

[Jan B]

Akjas were very popular at the eastern front to transport everything, including wounded comrades.

[Jan B]

fieldmade "schlitten"..there were vehicles or Trag-Zuggerät got stucked into the mud.

[Jan B]

Serious improvised transport during the Kuban fightings.

[Jan B]

Now isn't this neat? It is supposed to be captured russian luge, renamed by the germans as " Grosser Sanitätsschlitten"

[Sani]

Great stuff...I have the book sat next to me here <tabs book>