September 9 movie: Red Ball Express. This was a pretty good movie starring Jeff Chandler about a unit driving supply trucks in France in WWII. I guess you'd call it a docu-drama if it were made now: the fictional story is cut together with lots of newsreel footage of the actual transport division, and narration about troop movements. I love Jeff Chandler. The movie also features a very young Sidney Poitier as a private dealing with racial discrimination, both real and imagined.
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