Ploesti: the Great Ground-Air Battle of 1 August 1943
The book Ploesti: the Great Ground-Air Battle of 1 August 1943 was written by authors James Duggan, Carroll Stewart Here you can read free online of Ploesti: the Great Ground-Air Battle of 1 August 1943 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Ploesti: the Great Ground-Air Battle of 1 August 1943 a good or bad book?
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. . -- Walt Whitman, "The Dalliance of the Eagles," 1881 15 THE HIGH ROAD TO PLOESTI During the long peace after Tidal Wave, General Gerstenberg obtained more guns, more radar, and thousands of smoke generators to conceal the refineries. He barely held his fighter strength, but his antiaircraft became the heaviest concentration in the world. The build-up in Romania was matched by the swelling power of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force. The Fifteenth U.S.A.A.F. in Italy was stacking ...up hundreds of gleaming Liberators and Fortresses with new smartly trained crews. Officer discipline was improved; gone was the individualist of the Libyan period. The new leaders were formation keepers, and they carried bigger bombs that exploded more often than those carried on Tidal Wave. Norman Appold, who had rehearsed them to cope with fighter attacks, attended a briefing, on 4 April 1944 in which the new men faced the opening stroke of the final offensive on Romanian oil.
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