And we continue with our American stories.

Stephen Ambrose was one of America's leading biographers and historians.

He passed in 2002,

but his epic storytelling accounts can now be heard here

at our American stories

thanks to those who run his estate.

Our next story is the story

of weapons used in World War II.

Here is Stephen Ambrose.

Transport in the Second World War,

again, utilized nothing really new.

Trucks were used, of course, trucks had been used in the First World War, especially at

the Battle of Verdun by Marshall Payton.

The railroad was extensively used in the Second World War.

It had also been extensively used in the First World War. It had also been extensively used in the First World War.

Much of the Second World War transported in the European armies,

especially the Red Army and the German Army, was horse-drawn.

Hitler tried to give the world the impression that he had the most modern army,

and in a lot of ways he did, but wasn't as modern as he liked to pretend that it was, or the German propaganda portrayed it as being.

For all the pictures that Gerville's released of German tanks rolling down French roads,

and German trucks following behind, for the most part, the logistical supply system of the German army was rail drawn from depot to depot,

and then from the depots out into the field was horse drawn.

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