It took more than three hours for 8,000 soldiers and a thousand-plus trucks to move through Opelousas on Saturday, May 11, 1940, and they were moving as quickly as they could.
It was quite a show and people turned out to watch. According to the Opelousas Clarion-News, the hundreds of onlookers who lined Union Street to cheer for the convoy included “veterans, young Sub-Debs thrilled by the…