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Frontier Nursing Service CJ-3B

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Frontier Nursing Service

A different Tim shared this great color photo of a nice CJ-3B that was used by the Frontier Nursing Service.

The Frontier Nursing Service was founded in 1925 by Mary Breckinridge and they were pretty amazing how they served rural Kentucky communities. Horses and eventually Jeeps were used extensively to support their outreach efforts.

The background of the service can be watched here it’s really an amazing story of how people coming together can make a huge impact for so many generations of families. Talk about Horse Power!

https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/mary-breckinridge-and-the-fns-video/kentucky-studies/

Previously on eWillys:

https://www.ewillys.com/?s=Frontier+Nursing

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Kentucky’s Frontier Nursing Service & Jeeps

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The Frontier Nursing Service in one of their jeeps.

Thanks to Bus for spotting this interesting story. Stared in 1925 by Mary Breckinridge, the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) provided healthcare to rural folks in Kentucky. At first, horses and saddlebags helped them gain access to remote areas, but during WWII the group turned to jeeps. As these photos show, over the years FNS used a variety of different jeeps. There is even a 1931 documentary about the group (with additional information here):

In the late 1930s Edsel Ford donated a reconditioned Model A to the Service, which Mary named Henrietta. Several years later Ford replaced Henrietta with Henrietta II, a jeep. At some point the FNS secured another jeep, a WWII jeep Mary named “Jane”, named for a benefactor Clara “Jane” Ford”.

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According to the Henry Ford website, this jeep was “Jane”.

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May 1962 Jeep News

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The first few pages of this twelve-page issue cover the introduction of the Tornado engine. For some reason, there’s a small portion of page 3-4 that’s been cut out. I’m not exactly sure why. Page five highlights a row of FCs delivered to the New Jersey Turnpike, while another article discusses Mrs. Delta Burrece’s use of four jeeps to deliver aid tosome Cherokee Indians. Page eight introduces the movie “Magic Tide“, which included a Surrey. The movie was a featurette that seems to have disappeared into obscurity. Page nine shares more information on Kentucky nurses, something covered by these news articles I originally shared in 2018 (or see post below). On page twelve is an article about jeeps operating on a Hawaiian Ranch.

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