Oil Campaign of World War II | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-15

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00:01:25 1 Campaign strategy
00:03:07 2 Ploiești oilfield
00:06:46 3 Post-war
00:08:31 4 Opinions on outcome
00:10:35 5 Statistics
00:12:21 6 See also



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The Allied oil campaign of World War II was directed by the RAF and USAAF against facilities supplying Nazi Germany with petroleum, oil, and lubrication (POL) products. Part of the immense Allied strategic bombing effort during the war, the targets in Germany and "Axis Europe" included refineries for natural oil, factories producing synthetic fuel, storage depots, and other POL infrastructure resources.
The reliance of Germany on oil and oil products for its war machine was identified before the war and the strategic bombing started with RAF attacks on Germany in 1940. After the US entered the war, it carried out daytime "precision bombing" attacks such as Operation Tidal Wave against refineries in Romania in 1943. The  last major strategic raid of the European theater of the war was on a refinery in Norway in April 1945.  During the war the effort expended against POL targets varied with the relative priority given to other objectives such as defeating the German V-weapon attacks or preparations for the invasion of western Europe in 1944.