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Word: argentan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again the Luftwaffe. U.S. medium bombers hit oil dumps in France near Chartres. Argentan and Cerences. The R.A.F.'s new Typhoons, firing rockets that hit with the wallop of a six-inch naval shell, blasted storage tanks southwest of Rouen. The biggest European air combat since D-day was stirred up late in the week when 1,100 U.S. heavy bombers and 750 fighter escorts flew over Central Germany and attacked a string of industrial targets, including eleven refineries and synthetic oil plants grouped around Leipzig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Target: Oil | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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