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HITLER’S SEA WALL IS BREACHED, INVADERS FIGHTING WAY INLAND; NEW ALLIED LANDINGS ARE MADE (6/7/44)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library
| 6/7/44
| Drew Middleton, Raymond Daniell, Lawrence Resner, Desmond Tighe, Harold Denny, Frederick Graham
Posted on 06/07/2014 5:43:30 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: milhist; realtime; worldwarii
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To: henkster; fso301; Homer_J_Simpson
Logistics will be a problem until Antwerp is secured. The Red Ball Express is a great story, but was not a long term solution.
Of course, once we had supplies coming through Antwerp, Hitler made that the objective in the Bulge offensive.
To: colorado tanker; CougarGA7
The Red Ball Express is a great story, but was not a long term solution. You remind me that a distinguished freeper scholar one wrote a review of that story. It can be found on our general discussion thread, reply #73.
"The Road to Victory," a review by CougarGA7
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson; CougarGA7
Thanks for the link! The Red Ball Express was quite an achievement, moving supplies 24/7. It was an accomplishment the mostly black soldiers, who were generally not allowed in front line units, could be quite proud of.
Third Army's slow down of its advance near the German border in the fall of 1944 was basically the time when the Express was extended about as far as it could go.
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