THE HISTORIC RED BALL EXPRESS ON NE 28TH STREET. A Texas Highway of Remembrance for the World War II Soldiers Who Kept an Army Moving.
THE HISTORIC RED BALL EXPRESS ON NE 28TH STREET. A Texas Highway of Remembrance for the World War II Soldiers Who Kept an Army Moving. By Digging for Dignity Legacy Project HALTOM CITY, TEXAS — There are roads that take us somewhere. And there are roads that tell us where we have been. Northeast 28th Street does both. Link: https://fortworthreport.org/2026/06/22/digging-for-dignity-helps-restore-names-at-historic-cemetery/ Every day, traffic moves through this stretch of Tarrant County—past businesses, neighborhoods, intersections, churches, warehouses, families, and one of the region’s most consequential historic Black burial grounds. Drivers hurry east and west, many never knowing that just off the roadway, at People’s Memorial Legacy Park near NE 28th Street and North Beach Street , rests a World War II veteran whose military service connects this Texas transportation corridor to one of the greatest transportation operations of the Second World War. His name was TEC 5 Do...