Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shown here in May 1945, these black soldiers were attached to the 666th Quartermaster Truck Company that was part of the Red Ball ...
After the Normandy landings in June 1944, the advance of Gen. George S. Patton’s 3rd Army through eastern France was slowed by insufficient supplies of fuel, food and ammunition. On Aug. 25 of that ...
In the summer of 1944, the U.S. Army faced a crisis no battlefield victory could solve: its advance across France was ...
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 ...
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) ...