Author: Jay A. Stout
Publisher: Casemate
Keywords: hitler, oil, destroy, campaign, ploesti, fortress
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1932033181
ISBN-13: 9781932033182

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, it is also a launching point for the author’s inquiries into many aspects of the American strategic bombing effort in World War II. It delivers across the board.

Author: Duane Schultz
Publisher: Westholme Publishing
Keywords: world, war, mission, fateful, ploesti, fire
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-10-31
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1594160511
ISBN-13: 9781594160516

We were dragged through the mouth of hell."--from a Ploesti Mission debriefing report "We knew it was a disaster and knew that in the flames shooting up from those refineries we might be burned to death. But we went right in."--Lieutenant Norman Whalen Planned by Winston Churchill, authorized by Dwight D. Eisenhower, and executed by five specially trained American bomber units, the attack on the oil refineries of Ploesti, Romania, was among the most daring and dangerous missions of World War II. If the raid succeeded, the Nazi war machine would suffer a devastating blow. On Aug

Author: Duane Schultz
Publisher: Westholme Publishing
Keywords: world, war, mission, fateful, ploesti, fire
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1594160775
ISBN-13: 9781594160776

We were dragged through the mouth of hell."--from a Ploesti Mission debriefing report "We knew it was a disaster and knew that in the flames shooting up from those refineries we might be burned to death. But we went right in."--Lieutenant Norman Whalen Planned by Winston Churchill, authorized by Dwight D. Eisenhower, and executed by five specially trained American bomber units, the attack on the oil refineries of Ploesti, Romania, was among the most daring and dangerous missions of World War II. If the raid succeeded, the Nazi war machine would suffer a devastating blow. On Aug

Author: Ray Ward
Publisher: Weldon Publicatio
Keywords: ploesti, oil, fields, hitler, destroy, crews, epic, raid, brave
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0972417508
ISBN-13: 9780972417501

Colonel Ray Ward’s magnificent Those Brave crews: The Epic Raid to Destroy Hiltler’s Oil Fields, follows the fortunes of American aircraft on their suicidal mission against the vital Ploesti (Roumania) oil fields. With him you will follow each different crew, sit in the pilot’s seat, and share the unique experience of the gunners dueling eye-to-eye with the enemy flack crews. The sacrifice and dedication of these men rivals other famous events in history, such as the calvary charges of the Crimea, Pickett’s assault at Gettysburg, or Xenephon’s March.