US convoys in France, Belgium, Austria,Italy and Germany 1944/5

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In 1944/5 the US army established a number of convoy routes including:
Yellow Diamond - supporting 7th Army's advance from Italy, through Austria and into Germany
Red Ball Express - St Lo to Germany
ABC - Antwerp to the Rhineland

I have acquired a quite a number of scanned photos of vehicles on these routes. They're a bit faded and grainy but may be of interest. I'll post a few - please let me know if you want to see more.

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Yellow diamond

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ABC2

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ABC4

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Yellow diamond 4

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yellow diamond r

Pows going home

[cliff]

Originally posted by centurion
I'll post a few - please let me know if you want to see more.

yes please mate. Those are very interesting.

cheers
Cliff

[centurion]

Originally posted by cliff
yes please mate. Those are very interesting.

cheers
Cliff

No worries - you asked for it.





ABC3

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Red ball express 1

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Red ball express 2

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Red ball express 3

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Red ball express4

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Red ball express 5

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Red Ball Express 6

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Red Ball Express 7

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Yellow diamond 2

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Yellow diamond 3

[cliff]

Thanks for that. The Red Ball Express ones are interesting as they show mainly GMC-CCKW's where as the others were mainly Autocar tractor units and trailers.

Many thanks

Cheers
Cliff

[Les Freathy]

evening guys
interesting theme the convoys 2 more images for you

[Les Freathy]

no 2

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Originally posted by Les Freathy
no 2

This is on the Red Ball Express route. This route lasted for 81 days and at its conclusion the round trip to the battlefront was over 800 miles. In ths period about 500,000 tons of supplies were hauled.