Red Ball Express

Yes, we knew he was in the U.S. Army at a time where it was still segregated.

But we did not know that he was part of the Red Ball Express, which was this massive army truck convoy that eventually supplied the Allied forces with all of their needs, gas, food, everything to eventually defeat Hitler.

Well, now it makes complete sense when I thought to myself, why do I feel that? so passionately about social justice because it's usually I'm not just thinking just about me.

I'm thinking about me and others.

So Willard was a barber before the war.

He gets drafted into the quartermaster corps and he ends up driving for the Red Ball Express.

I really want to make sure you, the listener, understand the Red Ball Express because movies always focus on the paratroopers and the tanks.

But none of that happens without logistics.

Exactly.

So what was the Red Ball Express?

Well, logistics was the deciding factor in Europe.

After D-Day, the Allied forces broke out of Normandy and just started racing across France.