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The Red Ball Express: How Trucks Won World War II

In the summer of 1944, while Patton's tanks raced across France, German generals confidently predicted the American advance would soon collapse—not from battlefield defeat, but from logistical impossibility. They had calculated that no army could sustain such rapid movement without running out of fuel and ammunition.

What they didn't know would change the course of history.

Behind the front lines, an unprecedented operation roared to life: the Red Ball Express. This wasn't just another supply route—it was a rolling revolution that shattered military doctrine. Nearly 6,000 trucks operating around the clock. Headlights blazing through the night despite wartime blackout rules. A continuous river of steel carrying over 12,000 tons of supplies daily across bomb-damaged roads.

Most remarkably, this lifeline of the Allied advance was driven primarily by African American soldiers serving in segregated units—men who would return home to discrimination, yet whose relentless determination helped crush Nazi Germany.

In this video, discover how an operation deemed "logistically impossible" by German High Command not only succeeded but accelerated the end of the war in Europe. We reveal the human stories behind the trucks, the innovative tactics that defied military tradition, and why Field Marshal Model admitted after the war: "We were not fighting an army—we were fighting an entire industrial civilization."

Witness the forgotten heroes who proved that in modern warfare, victory doesn't always ride on tanks—but often on worn tires and the hands of those who refused to stop driving.