Fortress Ploesti
“Stout has done an outstanding job of chronicling the effort, particularly the 1944 campaign that finally put the refineries out of action…a must for those with a special interest in the attacks on Ploesti.”
--World War II History Magazine
Early on the morning of August 1, 1943, scores of American B-24 bombers took off from the hot plains of Libya on a long-range raid of dramatic importance. Their target was the massive Romanian refinery complex at Ploesti, a sprawling center that supplied Hitler's war machine with much of its precious oil. Of the 178 bombers that took part in the low-level raid, 54 of them never returned. That legendary mission was a watershed event in the history of aerial warfare, but it was only the beginning of the Ploesti saga.
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Jay A. Stout:
The greater campaign that turned the massive petroleum complex into twisted metal and ash got underway the following year in 1944. The relentless effort makes up a far-reaching story unlike any other of World War II and it is told here for the first time. Jay Stout's remarkable study is a unique, definitive and exceptionally readable account that brings to life the terror of the entire bloody series of aerial battles.
