Camp Crane

Camp Crane
Ambulance Station 555
Part of Training Headquarters of the USAACS. United States Army Ambulance Corps, World War I
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Training exercise at Camp Crane in front of the Allentown Fairgrounds Grandstand. Offices located in the Grandstand became both the headquarters of Camp Crane and the USAAS.
Camp Crane is located in Pennsylvania
Camp Crane
Camp Crane
Coordinates40°36′05″N 75°29′51″W / 40.60139°N 75.49750°W / 40.60139; -75.49750
Site history
In use17 May 1917-10 April 1919

Camp Crane was a World War I United States Army Ambulance Service (USAAS) training camp, located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Its mission was to train ambulance drivers to evacuate casualties on the Western Front in France. It was named for Brigadier General Charles Henry Crane, surgeon general of the Army in 1882-83.

Today, the location of Camp Crane is used as the Allentown Fairgrounds