WASHINGTON -- This week marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the Red Ball Express, the biggest movement of supplies in Europe during World War II. More than 6,000 truck drivers began delivering ...

Shown here in May 1945, these black soldiers were attached to the 666th Quartermaster Truck Company that was part of the Red Ball Express. National Archives Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had a problem. In ...

With a ceremonial ribbon cutting, a critical logistics effort from World War II was officially memorialized in U.S. Army Central’s Patton Hall: a monograph depicting the history and photos of the Red ...

That — surprisingly — is the first thing that Austin Powlis, 3902 Quartermaster Company, 16th Army Division, has to say about the June 1944 Invasion of Normandy, an event most of us picture as the ...

The most recent mission of the Red Ball Express should be on its way to Pearlington, Miss., today with goods to help hurricane victims.According to Darrell Nelson, the retired Coast Guard official who ...

Sealed in a box in his home office were memorabilia Benjamin Hall fiddled through, learning about a family member's experience in World War II. The Lansing resident shuffled through the box to see the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Red Ball Express is something not many people know about, but it played an integral role in ending World War II. It was a convoy system of trucks that supplied things ...

After 109 red exercise balls lumbered down the beginner’s slope Saturday at Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort, Jamie Lister was a happy person. She just didn’t know it for a while. Lister, owner of ...

The story of World War II’s “Red Ball Express” serves as a reminder that winning wars means winning a battle of logistics. It also offers insight into how we should approach our assistance to Ukraine ...

There’s still time to enter and, if you’re really lucky, win big in the annual Red Ball Express, which is set for Saturday afternoon at Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort. The four local Rotary ...

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had a problem. In June 1944, Allied forces had landed on Normandy Beach in France and were moving east toward Nazi Germany at a clip of sometimes 75 miles (121 kilometers) ...