Word: ploesti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Western Europe. In steel, for example, the satellites have a total capacity of 5,000,000 tons - one-fourth of Russia's capacity. Yet this production has long been based on materials imported from the West, especially ores from Sweden. In oil - mainly from Rumania's Ploesti, Hungary's Lispe and Austria's Zistersdorf fields - the satellites can produce 6,000,000 tons, a sixth of Russia's own production. But most of this oil is needed to keep the satellites' own industry going...
This documentary was originally filmed by the U.S. Signal Corps in 1944. It tells the story of a single B-24 in its raid on the Ploesti oil fields, and of the thrilling escape of the plane's crew after it is shot down unintentionally by Yugoslav anti-aircraft batteries. This has some of the best Technicolor action shots to come out of the war. It is at the Exeter in Boston...