FreightWaves Classics: Red Ball Express supplied American troops fighting the Nazis (Part 4)

Red Ball Express trucks being unloaded into a train. (Photo: First Army Museum)

To commemorate Black History Month, FreightWaves Classics profiles the Red Ball Express, which was manned primarily by Black soldiers.

FreightWaves thanks each man and woman, of all races and creeds, who has served in and is serving in the armed forces of the United States of America.

This is the fourth article in a four-part series about the fabled Red Ball Express, which supplied the American armies racing through France to fight and/or capture the retreating German armies.

Pursuing the German...

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