Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Red Ball Express

Index Red Ball Express

The Red Ball Express was a famed truck convoy system that supplied Allied forces moving quickly through Europe after breaking out from the D-Day beaches in Normandy in 1944. [1]

28 relations: African Americans, Alan Axelrod, Allies of World War II, Antwerp, Arromanches-les-Bains, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Belgium, CBS, Chartres, Cherbourg-Octeville, Company of Heroes, Convoy, George S. Patton, Governor (device), Logistics, Luftwaffe, Military history of African Americans, Normandy, Normandy landings, Railroad Gazette, Red Ball Express (film), Roll Out, Seine, U.S. Army Transportation Museum, United States Army Center of Military History, United States Department of Defense, Video game, 793rd Military Police Battalion.

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

New!!: Red Ball Express and African Americans · See more »

Alan Axelrod

Alan Axelrod (born 1952) is an author of history, business and management books.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Alan Axelrod · See more »

Allies of World War II

The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).

New!!: Red Ball Express and Allies of World War II · See more »

Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen, Anvers) is a city in Belgium, and is the capital of Antwerp province in Flanders.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Antwerp · See more »

Arromanches-les-Bains

Arromanches-les-Bains (or, simply Arromanches) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandie region of northwestern France.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Arromanches-les-Bains · See more »

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway · See more »

Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Belgium · See more »

CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

New!!: Red Ball Express and CBS · See more »

Chartres

Chartres is a commune and capital of the Eure-et-Loir department in France.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Chartres · See more »

Cherbourg-Octeville

Cherbourg-Octeville is a city and former commune situated at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula in the northwestern French department of Manche.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Cherbourg-Octeville · See more »

Company of Heroes

Company of Heroes is a 2006 real-time strategy video game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ for the Microsoft Windows and macOS operating systems.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Company of Heroes · See more »

Convoy

A convoy is a group of vehicles, typically motor vehicles or ships, traveling together for mutual support and protection.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Convoy · See more »

George S. Patton

General George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a senior officer of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, but is best known for his leadership of the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

New!!: Red Ball Express and George S. Patton · See more »

Governor (device)

A governor, or speed limiter or controller, is a device used to measure and regulate the speed of a machine, such as an engine.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Governor (device) · See more »

Logistics

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Logistics · See more »

Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Luftwaffe · See more »

Military history of African Americans

The military history of African Americans spans from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans during the colonial history of the United States to the present day.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Military history of African Americans · See more »

Normandy

Normandy (Normandie,, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Normandy · See more »

Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Normandy landings · See more »

Railroad Gazette

Railroad Gazette was a trade journal first published in April 1856 that focused on railroad, transportation and engineering topics.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Railroad Gazette · See more »

Red Ball Express (film)

Red Ball Express is a 1952 World War II war film directed by Budd Boetticher starring Jeff Chandler and Alex Nicol, featuring early screen appearances by Sidney Poitier and Hugh O'Brian.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Red Ball Express (film) · See more »

Roll Out

Roll Out is an American sitcom that aired Friday evenings on CBS during the 1973-1974 television season.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Roll Out · See more »

Seine

The Seine (La Seine) is a river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Seine · See more »

U.S. Army Transportation Museum

The U.S. Army Transportation Museum is a United States Army museum of vehicles and other transportation-related equipment and memorabilia.

New!!: Red Ball Express and U.S. Army Transportation Museum · See more »

United States Army Center of Military History

The United States Army Center of Military History (CMH) is a directorate within the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army.

New!!: Red Ball Express and United States Army Center of Military History · See more »

United States Department of Defense

The Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States Armed Forces.

New!!: Red Ball Express and United States Department of Defense · See more »

Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

New!!: Red Ball Express and Video game · See more »

793rd Military Police Battalion

The 793rd Military Police Battalion was a Battalion sized unit in the United States Army stationed at Fort Richardson, Alaska.

New!!: Red Ball Express and 793rd Military Police Battalion · See more »

Redirects here:

Redball Express, The Red Ball Express.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ball_Express

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »