Ploesti
Subtitle: The Great Ground-Air Battle of 1 August 1943, Revised Edition (Brassey's Aviation Classics)
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781574885101
Subjects: Air forces & warfare; Battles & campaigns; European history: Second World War; World War, 1939-1945; History: American; General; History; History - Military / War; Romania; USA; Military - World War II; History / Military / Aviation; Campaigns; Aerial operations, American; Ploiesti, Battles of, Ploies; Ploieðsti, Battles of, Ploieðsti, Romania, 1943-1944
First sentence: During the middle years of World War II the United States Army Air Forces carried on a determined and bloody bombing offensive against one of the most vital, distant and deadly industrial targets in Hitler's Europe, the oil refineries at a city called Ploesti, in the kingdom of Romania.