Ploesti

Ploesti: The Great Ground-Air Battle of 1 August 1943, revised edition.

Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008

Thus, the B-24s were sent to bomb Ploesti, a major source of Nazi oil in Romania.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

Thus, the B-24s were sent to bomb Ploesti, a major source of Nazi oil in Romania.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

A terrifying raid on the Ploesti oil refineries, likewise, inspired navigator Donald Currier to pray for the first time in his life: "God, give me my life, and I will never ask for anything else again."

Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008

Fourteen months later a vastly larger mission was undertaken, pitting 177 Libya-based Liberators against several Ploesti refineries and incurring spectacular bomber losses.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

Fourteen months later a vastly larger mission was undertaken, pitting 177 Libya-based Liberators against several Ploesti refineries and incurring spectacular bomber losses.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

Losing Ploesti would have knocked both industrially weak Axis powers out of the war.

Eric Margolis: Time to Face the Truth About World War II 2009

One of the first targets was Ploesti, Romania, Germany's sole source of oil (except for ersatz fuel from coal).

Eric Margolis: Time to Face the Truth About World War II 2009

Consider the lessons of past wars: The invasion of Stalin's Russia by the Nazis in 1941 is incomprehensible rationally unless be look at the map and see that the Ploesti oil fields were until then vulnerable to a possible Soviet attack.

No responsible leader can afford to ignore the implosion of US democracy 2009

Upon graduating, she was appointed principal of the Jewish school for girls in Ploesti.

Romania, Women and Jewish Education. 2009