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Ploesti - The Rest of the Story
Posted on: 2013-10-04 16:27:57 By Barrett Tillman @ HistoryNet.com In April 1944, the Fifteenth Air Force had begun a four-month campaign to destroy the petroleum refineries around Ploesti. In fact, the Fifteenth was all about oil at that point: Since Romania lay 1,300 miles from the English bases of the Eighth Air Force, Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining's command had been established on fields surrounding Foggia, on Italy's east coast—well within reach of the refineries. Read on... |