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Fortress Ploesti - The Campaign to Destroy Hitler's Oil Supply (Paperback)
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Fortress Ploesti - The Campaign to Destroy Hitler's Oil Supply (Paperback)
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Loot Price R77
Discovery Miles 770
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Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the
famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire
1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but
knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war machine
the fuel and lubricants it so desperately needed. While Fortress
Ploesti is the narrative history of the entire air campaign to deny
the Ploesti oil complex to the Axis powers, Stout, who served as a
Marine F/A-18 pilot in the First Gulf War, asks questions about the
aerial strategy and combat history relating to this crucial
campaign. He carries the ball far beyond the goal post set by all
other Ploesti historians. He has gone out of his way to describe
the defences throughout the campaign, and he brings in the voices
of Ploesti's defenders to complement the tales of Allied airmen who
brought Ploesti to ruin. He describes the role of the bombers, that
of the fighters, and explains the developments in anti-aircraft
defences, such as the technique of obscuring the Ploesti complex
with smoke, which defined the campaign's combat strategy. In the
end, Stout's narrative describes the entire Ploesti effort for the
very first time in print, and, by proxy, guides the reader through
the intricacies of the entire Allied strategic bombing campaign in
Europe, and all the weapons and techniques the Axis powers used to
parry it. His lucid presentation of complex issues at both tactical
and strategic levels is impressive.
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