Red Ball Express

[SAnd]

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.

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Thanks SAnd.I have my entertainment for the next few hours

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Thanks as always Alex.

[alxone]

Thanks as always Alex.

no thank you for enjoying the post



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


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