Posted on May 31, 2019
Air Force Bombers Tried to Destroy Hitler's Oil Fields During World War II
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Targeting Nazi oil fields in Ploesti
Air Force Bombers Tried to Destroy Hitler's Oil Fields During World War II
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Military History
WWII World War Two
Air Power
Oil
Strategy
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The Germans' ingenuity at manufacturing synthetic oil took some of the edge off the losses in Ploesti, but it was indeed critical to their war effort. Much like the oil fields in Palembang and Brunei were key to the Japanese war effort.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
If I remember properly, the Japanese experimented with extracting fuel from pine trees but it was short lived because they had to cut down a forest to fuel a plane.
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