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Ploeşti a city in SE central Romania: centre of the Romanian petroleum industry. Pop.: 204 000 (2005 est.) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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We will not forget the valor of those young Airmen that manned those B-17s for the second Schweinfurt mission or the B-24s for Ploesti. Blood of Victory (originally published in 2002) is about the attempt to block the passage of oil barges from the Romanian oil fields at Ploesti up the Danube, by blocking the river at the narrows called the Iron Gates. Schiffmacher was flying a mission over Ploesti, Romania, in 1943 to destroy a number of oil refineries that provided fuel for Hitler's planes and military vehicles. |
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