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By autumn 1944, German soldiers across France had learned a terrifying lesson: attacking an American truck convoy was more dangerous than fighting Sherman tanks in open battle.
Canvas-sided trucks. No armor. Drivers armed with nothing but carbines. By every calculation, the softest target on the battlefield. But German squads that ambushed these convoys kept disappearing. Entire units — wiped out overnight. The trucks they destroyed? Rolling again by morning. The soldiers they lost doing it? Gone forever.
The Red Ball Express moved 23,000 drivers across France to keep Patton's army fed, fueled, and armed. When Hitler launched his last desperate offensive in the Ardennes, his panzers carried enough fuel for sixty miles — less than half the distance to their objective. The rest, they were supposed to take from the Americans.
What happened when they tried changed the way German soldiers thought about the war they were fighting.
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