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Truck Drivers Are Unsung War Heroes
HAL BOYLE writes from La Chapelle France as three U S Army truck drivers from the red ball unit recount life on the road during the drive across France Belgium and into Holland and Germany They describe 20 30 hour shifts scarce meals cold cabs and fuel convoys that kept tanks supplied amid frontline action They celebrate the unsung drivers who moved food ammunition medicine and clothing to frontline troops and recall incidents of two of their trucks entering front lines and returning with German machine guns amid the harsh conditions of war.
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Hal Boyle
la Chapelle
France
Essyed
Joe’ Madden
Flushing
Paris
Belgium
Holland
Germany
Joe Pati
Chicago
Pic
Marco A. Battista
Brooklyn
Patt
James Gaston
Winterville
Miss
Gasian
Patti
Scere
Ravnaghing Highway
Indianapolis Speedway