German Generals Mocked American Logistics — Then Patton Never Ran Out of Fuel

Описание: In August 1944, German generals were confident the American advance would collapse.
Their calculations were flawless. The distance was too great. The fuel requirements were impossible. No army in history had ever sustained such speed.

They were wrong.

This documentary tells the story of the Red Ball Express, the audacious American logistics operation that kept General George S. Patton’s Third Army moving across France after D-Day. While the Wehrmacht expected American forces to grind to a halt, nearly 6,000 trucks, driven mostly by African-American soldiers, created a nonstop supply highway that delivered over 12,500 tons of fuel, ammunition, and food every day.

German intelligence understood tanks.
They understood artillery.
They did not understand American logistics.

Using firsthand reports, verified historical records, and German assessments from the Western Front, this film explores how mass production, redundancy, and sheer industrial scale shattered German military doctrine. The Red Ball Express didn’t just supply Patton’s advance — it rewrote the rules of modern warfare.

This is the story of the trucks that defeated German strategy, the drivers history ignored, and the logistics operation that proved victory belongs to the side that can move faster, farther, and longer than anyone thought possible.