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The Red Ball Express was a famed truck convoy system that supplied Allied forces moving quickly through Europe after breaking out from the D-Day beaches in Normandy in 1944. To expedite cargo shipment to the front, trucks emblazoned with red balls followed a similarly marked route that was closed to civilian traffic.
African American truck drivers of the Red Ball Express kept American units supplied in the race across France during the summer and fall of 1944.
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The huge convoy stretching from horizon to horizon was part of the Red Ball Express, the famed trucking operation in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) in the late summer and fall of 1944 that supplied the rapidly advancing American armies as they streamed toward the German frontier.
Apr 7, 2022 · These Red Ball Express trucks and the Black men who drove and loaded them made the U.S. Army the most mobile and mechanized force in the war.
- Matthew Delmont
The European theater of operations during the Second World War provides a pertinent historical example for sustainers to prepare for large-scale combat operations. A military historian recommends...
Red Ball Express: Directed by Budd Boetticher. With Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake, Judith Braun. Story of the military truck drivers who kept the Allied armies supplied in Europe during World War II.
Army leadership established the Red Ball Express to ensure the advancing U.S. Army, including the 1st Infantry Division, had enough supplies to press forward. The Red Ball Express consisted of 6,000 vehicles that moved 12,500 tons of supplies per day.
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