Word: ploesti
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...make: whether to dip into its central strategic reserve (believed to be from 40 to 50 divisions) to try to salvage the situation in Rumania. Swedish military sources estimated that the German southern wing must have at least 20 fresh divisions if it is to defend the vital Ploesti oilfields, source of one-third of the Reich's oil. The estimate may or may not be accurate, but that defense the Germans must undertake...
Here, as at the northern passes, opportunity also knocks, for the Germans have as yet had little time to organize. If the Russians drive southward along the eastern wall of the Carpathians, the Ploesti oilfields, one-third of Hitler's oil supply, can be taken, Bucharest and the German frontage on the Black Sea could be liquidated. If the drive continued successfully the Russians could fight their way west, where the Carpathians curve back, to reach the easiest of the Carpathian passes, facing north from the valley of the muddy Danube...
...then inexplicably let her follow her father to Ankara. The Princess' husband, Major Edward Boxhall, now in the War Office in London, formerly represented armament-makers Vickers-Armstrong in Rumania. The Prince himself formerly headed Rumania's powerful Steaua Romana Oil Co., a big operator in the Ploesti fields...
...tide now lapped at Festung Europa; it washed most heavily at Poland and Rumania. This week it was 50 mi. from Rumania's 1940 border, 275 mi. from frightened Bucharest, 200 mi. from Warsaw. Only 240 mi. away, Ploesti's oilfields-fueling pump of the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe-tempted Russian bombers...
...plane was hit and he gunned it up so his men could get out. I saw three chutes leave, but I don't think two of the men landed alive. Then the commander dove his plane right into the biggest building in town. No man who went to Ploesti will ever forget...