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figured you guys might enjoy the red ball express [Flower]
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At its peak the Red Ball Express operated 5,958 vehicles and carried about 12,500 tons of supplies per day
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py6dwW8vuhU
Very cool. I never knew about the red ball express.
Very Cool
Another reminder of the great things our guys did over there.
Great stuff!
Wasn't there a movie about them that came out in the 50's?
Logistics win wars.
Neato...thx Alxone.
"Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics"Quote:
Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter
Yes but I don't remember the name of that movie. In it the troops running the trucks sang a song and one of the phrases that went like, "LIFT THAT LOAD, ONE FOR HITLER AND ONE FOR THE ROAD..."Quote:
Originally Posted by zteknik
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I remember that there was an episode of Combat that dealt with the Red Ball Express. These guys and the LST won the war.
The movie was "Red Ball Express" (naturally) made in 1952. I downloaded it off of Youtube but it isn't available there any more. Here is the Internet Movie Database info site on it-
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045072/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Youtube shows "Combat! S05E23 - Nightmare on the Red Ball Run" in four parts-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSBL88jmG54
I have greatly enjoyed David L. Robbins historical fiction books about WWII. He has "Liberation Road: A Novel of World War II and the Red Ball Express"
Here is the amazon listing- http://www.amazon.com/Liberation-Roa...iberation+road
I read a book by a Army officer that was assigned to a tank unit in WWII. After the war he was assigned to a unit that evaluated how well the logistics were handled. Two things always stick out about what he found. Only 20% of the cigarettes offloaded from the ships made it to their assigned units. In other words 80% were stolen. But he also said that the front line units never formally complained about it. The other thing he said, except for a couple of special combat situations (like the Battle of the Bulge), that 98% of the time the front line units started every day at full strength equipment wise. As a comparison the German army was never at full strength after the invasion of France.
Thanks SAnd.I have my entertainment for the next few hours :)
Thanks as always Alex.
no thank you for enjoying the postQuote:
Originally Posted by hghclsswhitetrsh
here are a few books i found
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/044...SIN=0446667684
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/044...SIN=0446667684
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/071...SIN=0711031924
and more pics
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