The story of World War II’s “Red Ball Express” serves as a reminder that winning wars means winning a battle of logistics. It also offers insight into how we should approach our assistance to Ukraine ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had a problem. In June 1944, Allied forces had landed on Normandy Beach in France and were moving east toward Nazi Germany at a clip of sometimes 75 miles ...
With a ceremonial ribbon cutting, a critical logistics effort from World War II was officially memorialized in U.S. Army Central’s Patton Hall: a monograph depicting the history and photos of the Red ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Red Ball Express is something not many people know about, but it played an integral role in ending World War II. It was a convoy system of trucks that supplied things ...
The GM Defense's Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV) has just received the Red Ball Express Award. At the NDIA Tactical Wheeled Vehicle conference in Reston, Virginia, the nine-passenger all-terrain troop ...
After the Normandy landings in June 1944, the advance of Gen. George S. Patton’s 3rd Army through eastern France was slowed by insufficient supplies of fuel, food and ammunition. On Aug. 25 of that ...
16 million Americans served in world war II. An estimated 167,000 are still living. Albert B. Wess was a part of a special unit of trucks that ran critical supplies to the front lines. A majority of ...
His birthplace is named after a fictional Native American heroine from an early-19th century novel. However, William Henry Micou grew up to have many adventures of his own — all of them real — on his ...
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