Скачать или смотреть Patton’s Advance & the Red Ball Express: How U.S. Logistics Beat Germany

In August 1944, German generals were certain the American advance in France would collapse under its own weight. By every rule of military science they knew, General George S. Patton’s Third Army had outrun its supply lines. Fuel, ammunition, and food should have stopped the offensive within days.

They were right by the math—and wrong in reality.

This documentary reveals how the Red Ball Express shattered German logistical assumptions and turned American industrial power into a weapon of war. Operating day and night across hundreds of miles of devastated French roads, thousands of trucks—driven largely by African-American soldiers—delivered nearly 90,000 tons of supplies in a single week.

This is not a story about battlefield tactics or famous generals. It is the untold story of how logistics decided the Western Front, how doctrine collapsed under improvisation, and how modern war was rewritten on the roads of France.

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HISTORICAL SOURCES:
Roland G. Ruppenthal — Logistical Support of the Armies, Volume I & II (U.S. Army Center of Military History)
Martin Blumenson — Breakout and Pursuit (U.S. Army in World War II Series)
U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps Historical Studies — The Red Ball Express
Stephen E. Ambrose — Citizen Soldiers
Charles B. MacDonald — The Mighty Endeavor
After-Action Reports, Third U.S. Army, August–September 1944
German General Staff War Diaries, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW)