Red Ball Express Veteran gets to tour World War 2 Memorial

The Red Ball Express was the famed truck convoy that supplied the advancing American forces in World War 2. The trucks were primarily run by African American service men. Albert Wess Senior was one of those Army Veterans. He tells us about his service. He is also part of Honor Flight Bluegrass. The organization took him and several other veterans on a tour to Washington DC to visit the memorials.

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Whether there were 20% white drivers in the Red Ball Express or 1%... it doesn’t matter to me. Because my Dad was George T. McPhail who drove for the entire existence of the Red Ball Express. He rose from private to Sargent during that time as well. He was proud to have driven the Red Ball. He got along quite well with his black comrades because, before the war he worked for a while in the coal mines with them. I am proud of his sacrifice, especially sense he was blind in his right eye.

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thank you too all the african american gi s