Simulating an air raid emergency on March 31, 1942, Emil Zatkovich, left, and W.G. Bott lift "patient" Robert Johnson, on a stretcher, into a North End Grocery & Market panel truck. The store's delivery truck was serving as a Civilian Defense Ambulance Corps substitute ambulance. At the rear of the vehicle is Ken Peters, laundry truck driver. Mr. Bott, the head of the Civilian Defense Ambulance Corps, had put out a call for panel vans and station wagons that the Corps could use as emergency ambulances. Arthur Olsen, whose North End Grocery & Market was at 4329 North 26th Street, was one of the Tacoma merchants who answered the call. The Corps at this time had the use of about 75 such vehicles, mostly laundry trucks. TPL-1973 (T. Times 3/31/1942, pg. 3)

North End Grocery & Market (Tacoma); World War, 1939-1945--Civil defense--Tacoma; Ambulances; Emergency medical services; Zatkovich, Emil; Bott, W.G.; Peters, Ken;