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Allied bombing of the oil campaign targets of World War II included attacks on Nazi Germany oil refineries, synthetic oil plants, storage depots, and other chemical works. . Natural oil was available in Northwestern Germany at Nienhagen [1] (55%—300,000 tons per year), [2] Rietberg (20%—300,000), and Heide (300,000) and refineries were mainly at Hamburg and Ha
The Allied oil campaign of World War II [4]: 11 was an aerial bombing campaign conducted by the RAF and the USAAF against facilities supplying Nazi Germany with petroleum, oil, and lubrication (POL) products. It formed part of the immense Allied strategic bombing effort during the war.
Chronology Date Target/Topic Event May 15/16, 1940: Oil and other installations in Ruhr: In response to the bombing of Rotterdam, Western Air Plan 5 [4]: 4 was activated. . This was the first large-scale strategic bombing during World War II [5]: 53 and the first attack on the German interior - it inflicted little dama
Operation Tidal Wave was an air attack by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in Libya on nine oil refineries around Ploiești, Romania, on 1 August 1943, during World War II. It was a strategic bombing mission and part of the "oil campaign" to deny petroleum-based fuel to the Axis powers. [4]
Operation Meridian, also known as the "Palembang Raids" was part of a series of British air attacks directed at Japanese-held oil refineries near Palembang on Sumatra during the Second World War, Meridian had two phases: Meridian I on 24 January 1945 and Meridian II on 29 January. As a result, the critical aviation fuel output of the plants at ...
The attack on Aruba was an attack on oil installations and tankers by Axis submarines during World War II. On 16 February 1942, a German U-boat attacked the small Dutch island of Aruba. Other submarines patrolled the area for shipping and they sank or damaged tankers.
The town of Tsuchizaki was a major port on the Sea of Japan coast, railway nexus, and an important center for oil refineries fed by nearby oil fields. [3] The town was incorporated into the neighboring city of Akita on April 1, 1941. Despite its military significance, it had not been attacked during the initial stages of the strategic bombing ...
By the time that the United States entered World War II in 1941, oil was a vital part of military operations around the world. [1] The United States produced 60 percent of the world's crude oil, with the state of Texas in the south-west leading this production, producing more than twice as much crude as any other state. [2]