
Red Ball Express
- Year:
- 1952
- 83 min
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History records that the invasion...
which was to liberate Europe
from the German army began in July of 1944.
We'd stormed the beaches
and fought through the hedgerows...
and reached the rubble
of village streets.
For a while we thought
it was gonna be a walkover, but 30 miles inland,
between the towns of Saint-Lo
and Piriere, we ran into it:
a wall of German men and guns
planted there by Der Fuhrer with one order:
Hold or die.
The Germans didn't have
any corner on giving orders. We issued an order of our own:
Break through.
And so, on July 27,
the Allied army swung
all the way from the floor,
and we hit the west wall
with everything we had,
Lightning Joe Collins'
Seventh Corps showing the way.
It took three, long,
never-forgotten days,
but the wall cracked,
and the crack became a hole...
and the hole, a doorway.
Through the door, more armor
poured into France than the Germans knew existed.
General Courtney Hodges'
First Army moved east toward the Seine.
Field Marshal Monty Montgomery's
21st Army group took a cut north heading for Antwerp.
And General George S. Patton's
Third Army...
Well, George, he took
his tanks, his men,
added a dash of
his private brand of courage...
and led them
straight up the center for Paris.
Hey, knock it off,
you jerk!
You feel like makin'
some noise, get down the road and join the war!
I'll give you ten seconds to get out of there!
Yeah?
Well, I'll give you
just ten seconds to knock that racket off...
before I give you
- Good morning, sir.
- I hope I didn't break up a crap game, Lieutenant.
No, sir.
Why are you lying doggo in the road?
Are you lost
or afraid or both?
Neither, sir.
We only had one can of gas left. I thought we'd save it.
For what? You can't win a war
against enemy you don't capture or terrain you don't take.
- Get back in that tank
and start moving! - Yes, sir.
Wow.
So we burn up our last can of gas. Then what?
Maybe there's
some gas stations along the road somewheres.
Aw, sure. This is
Free air, free water
and registered rest rooms.
Yeah. They wash
your windshield with an 88-millimeter shell.
Why don't they send up those back-line supply troops?
Those jokers?
If you expect them to keep
up with old Blood-and-Guts,
I'll bet my bottom stripe
we take Berlin with slingshots.
Hey, Charlie,
they got another cartoon in here about General Gordon.
I'd give $20
to see his face when he sees...
Get your money up,
Lieutenant.
I hope it was worth it.
Now get on that telephone and
get the advanced section of the communication zone, Col. Carter.
It's in Le Mans.
Yes, sir. Make the call, Corporal.
Yes, sir.
This is Tippecanoe six.
Give me Tatter forward.
This is a high priority
call. Get that:
a high priority call.I want Colonel Carter
for Major General Lee Gordon on General Patton's staff.
Yeah, yeah? Who is it?
This is Major General Lee Gordon speaking.
Can you hear me?
Uh, yes, General. Can you hear me?
Doesn't make any difference
whether I can hear you because you're not going to be talking.
Ten days ago, you told me that
supplies were being sent up. Where are they?
Uh, uh, well, you see, sir, uh...
I'm fed up with promises!
I want gasoline, gasoline
and more gasoline.
I want small-caliber ammunition
and rations, and I want them as fast as you can get them to me.
General, your outfit's
been moving four times as fast as anybody thought it would.
We'll catch up to you eventually.
"Eventually"!
Get me those supplies!
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