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...PLOESTI (407 pp.)-James Dugan & Carroll Stewart - Random House...
...Army Air Forces base in the Libyan desert near Bengasi one baking July day in 1943. The assembled pilots, navigators, bombardiers and gunners roared their approval. Offscreen an announcer's voice intoned that the assembled airmen were about to strike a virgin target. Its name: Ploesti...
...foothills of Rumania's Transylvanian Alps 35 miles from Bucharest, Ploesti was called by Winston Churchill "the taproot of German might." From its oil refineries came one-third of the aviation gasoline, benzine and lubricants that kept Adolf Hitler's military machine running. To protect Ploesti from air at tack, the Germans had made it into a colossal land battleship. A ring of heavy antiaircraft guns formed a perimeter around the refineries that circled the city; lighter flak guns were concealed in hay stacks and groves, mounted on factories, bridges, water towers and church steeples on the target...
Heroic Snafu. To smash Festung Ploesti, U.S. air planners came up with a novel plan : a daring low-level attack that completely violated the high-level strategic bombing canons of most top Air Forces brass. The planners reasoned that a rooftop raid would give the striking B-24 Liberators an element of surprise, limit the effectiveness of the Luftwaffe, and throw off the accuracy of flak gunners primed for high-level raiders. How they miscalculated is the core of Authors Dugan and Stewart's taut and gripping tale of a disastrous yet heroic snafu - pieced together from letters, diaries...
...wells totaling 115,000 bbl. daily in Mexico's "golden lane" south of Tampico. When the partners sold out in 1916, they made $3,159,000 clear profit. Benedum discovered the famous De Mares Pool in Colombia on which International Petroleum fattened and wildcatted in Rumania's Ploesti field at Queen Marie's personal invitation. By 1948 he was back in the U.S. with still another new field, West Texas' Benedum Field, whose reserves were estimated as high as 600 million...