The Motor Corps gave invaluable service in driving fire de-
partment, hospital and Red Cross ambulances, trucks, jeeps,
and their own cars, to break transportation bottlenecks.

The Canteen Corps, well trained, hard-working, and
on call 24 hours a day, reached the point where it could
serve daily meals to more than 12,000,000 of our people in
an emergency. It served troops in transit and members of
the armed forces at the request of commanding officers, as
well as fire fighters and disaster victims, school children and
war workers.

At Red Cross and other war activity centers, staff assist-
ants manned information desks, acted as receptionists, cler-
ical workers, and switchboard operators in increasing num-
bers. They were trained and certificated at the rate of al-
most 3,000 a month.

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LENGTHENING LIFE LINES

A a part of its chartered obligation to carry on measures
for preventing suffering, the Red Cross added 1,s00,000
to the number of trained first aiders and 300,000 trained in
water safety during the past 12 months. Statistically, one
home in three, at the period’s end, had first aid protection.
In factories, stores, offices, and schools, many hundreds of
First Aid Detachments were organized. On the highways,
thousands of Emergency First Aid Stations and Mobile First
Aid Units provided materials and volunteer services for
the injured.

Water safety activity grew apace, both as a recreational
and an occupational safeguard. Summer aquatic schools
qualified several thousand instructors in water safety, first
aid, and accident prevention.

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