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Red Ball Express is a 1952 American World War II war film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Jeff Chandler and Alex Nicol, featuring early screen appearances by Sidney Poitier and Hugh O'Brian. The film is based on the Red Ball Express convoys that took place after the D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944. [2]
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.
Red Ball Express (1952) depicts the most famous Army Transportation Corps mission of the war: an emergency around-the-clock plan to supply Gen. George Patton's tanks with gas and ammo as they raced toward Paris with lightning speed. The tanks moved so quickly, in fact, that they outran their supply lines more than once.
A tense World War II tale based on the true story of a special truck convoy created to transport urgent supplies to General Patton's army...
Nov 23, 2015 · 46. 11K views 8 years ago. During the Allied push to Paris, General Patton’s tanks have outrun their supply lines in a dramatic dash into German-held territory. Lieut. Campbell is assigned to throw...
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Red Ball Express. Enmity between an officer and his assistant complicates an already hazardous mission to get supplies to Patton's tanks.
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Nov 9, 2020 · Budd Boetticher's instantly engaging, 1952 Red Ball Express stars Jeff Chandler as U.S. Army Lt. Chick Campbell, tasked with leading a post-D-Day convoy of military trucks over dangerous terrain in France, with the objective of delivering much-needed fuel and ammo to General Patton's tanks.
Red Ball Express is a 1952 World War II war film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Jeff Chandler. The film is based on the real Red Ball Express convoys that took place after the D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944.
Red Ball Express deals with the little-known activities of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps during WW II. It so happened that many of the Corps' most courageous drivers were black men, who otherwise would have been denied an opportunity for combat duty.
