The Red Ball Express became Fed EX......and started with quite an attitude...... :)

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Dec 11, 2018 | 05:24 AM

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The Red Ball Express became Fed EX......and started with quite an attitude...... :)

Red Ball Express 1952 Full Movie

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Calvin Donaldson

Published on Jan 27, 2018

This WWII film profiles the Red Ball Express, an enormous truck convoy system that supplied Allied forces moving quickly through Europe after breaking out from the D-Day beaches in Normandy.

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Dec 11, 2018 | 05:25 AM

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Terrance E. Johnson, Sr.

My Dad was with the red ball. D-Day+3 through the breakout at St. Lo. Across France, until they were broke up before the battle of the bulge. Seventy percent Black troops. I am proud to be a son of such a great American hero. May they all rest in peace. The nightmares can end now!

Dec 11, 2018 | 05:25 AM

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My father was a company Captain, with an Italian-American 2nd in command, and his enlisted men were all African Americans. They drove faster than the Germans could believe. He landed D-Day plus One and they went all the way to Germany, dealt with werewolves (German Soldiers in civilian clothing, murdered, sabotage), and then was part of the occupation force. He had the highest respect for the men under his command.

Dec 11, 2018 | 05:26 AM

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Gordon Frickers

Thanks for posting this. Unsung heroes, there were and are so many. Merchant sailors, factory workers, medics... In the British Army the Pioneer Corps did this sort of work along with building bridges, making smoke screens, defusing mines and booby traps, building airfields, organising civilian labour to clean up devastated towns and villages, connecting vital utilities like water and electricity, burying dead and a thousand other jobs, including being Infantry, and handling POW's, many dirty, unpleasant, thank less and often having to sleep in ditches to avoid German shell fire and shrapnel falling from AA gunfire. Just like the men portrayed in this film. . My Father was a Pioneer soldier, later an officer. Three times by accident he crossed into German lines and claims the world record for turning round a Willis Jeep. Some of his men were killed. Mostly though he would only tell the funny stories

Dec 11, 2018 | 06:12 AM

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Mark Anthony

I know how underestimated those guys were. I served in what we now call Combat Logistics, the guys on the front line called us all sorts of names, but the supply network in a fast moving situation is vital and they came to realise that. It doesn't matter if it is the logistics guy in the rear warehouse issuing the equipment, to the guy driving the load to the frontline area. The Logistics guys as a whole are vital, just very under appreciated, but without them everything else fails.

Dec 11, 2018 | 06:13 AM

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It would be great to get a copy of this on DVD.! never found it on VHS back in the day. Those CCKW's were rated 2 1/2 tons for cross country travel and 5 tons for roads, max speed about 45 mph , Military didn't care about speed just that the truck got there . They built about 500,000 of all types cargo trucks, dump trucks, radio and communications trucks, repair shop's , printing and photo developing trucks ,air compressor trucks, tanker trucks,laundry and cook trucks,and a very rare air-portable model.

Dec 11, 2018 | 06:15 AM

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Patton knew that the Germans were supplied by horses 80% not trucks so he could take advantage of that by his speedy advances. He also understood supplies because he studied how Grant was so successful in the Mexican War doing supplies and later he knew Grant applied that speed to the Civil War for the North.

Dec 11, 2018 | 06:17 AM

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Trixie Pettman-South

THAT WAS ONE HELL OF A GREAT MOVIE, I SAW IT YEARS AGO AND NOW THANKS TO MY BEST FRIEND YOUTUBE I CAME ACROSS IT AGAIN. I AM 81 BUT MANY YEARS AGO I DROOLED OVER JEFF CHANDLER AND BELIEVE ME I WILL GO TO SLEEP DREAMING OF HIM ALL OVER AGAIN. WHILE THERE'S BREATH THERE'S HOPE. ALL JOKES ASIDE IT WAS A GREAT MOVIE, HAIR RAISING SCENES AND GREAT ACTING. THANK YOU, CHEERS TRIXIE.

Dec 11, 2018 | 06:18 AM

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D. D.D.

Great WWII movie. Don't remember that one. I really enjoyed the camaraderie of the blacks & whites together, even though it may not have been very accurate for that time. If it wasn't that way, then it certainly should have been. Every movie like that makes me extremely grateful and very proud of every soldier in that war that made the ultimate sacrifice so others like myself could still be enjoying our freedom. Every one of them was a hero.

Dec 11, 2018 | 06:19 AM

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James Osborne

I've never liked movies that take a major historic event in history and made it into a series of personal stories. I could watch Payton Place and get more of a plot. Sorry for the negative opinion as this is an old movie and still is much better than the garbage coming out these days.

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