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Fortress Ploesti: The Campaign to Destroy Hitler's Oil - Jay A Stout, Casemate
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Case Mate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
ISBN-10
1932033181
ISBN-13
9781932033182
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5984909
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fortress Ploesti : the Campaign to Destroy Hitler's Oil
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Europe / Eastern, Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), Military / Aviation
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-299421
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
940.54/21982
Table Of Content
Foreword and Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Oil Chapter 2. Beginnings Chapter 3. Liberator Chapter 4. Preparations Chapter 5. En Route Chapter 6. Chaos Chapter 7. Egress Chapter 8. Assessments Chapter 9. Strategy Chapter 10. Buildup Chapter 11. Loophole Chapter 12. Downed Chapter 13. Defenses Chapter 14. Mountaineers Chapter 15. Bombardiers Chapter 16. Teamwork Chapter 17. Romanian Chapter 18. Lightnings Chapter 19. Germans Chapter 20. Selflessness Chapter 21. Bulgarians Chapter 22. Svengali Chapter 23. Honor Chapter 24. Nightmare Chapter 25. Ingenuity Chapter 26. Night Chapter 27. Terror Chapter 28. Straps Chapter 29. Tally Epilogue Appendix One: Fifteenth Air Force Organizational Chart Appendix Two: Statistics--1944 Ploesti Campaign Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war machine the fuel and lubricants it so desperately needed., Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war machine the fuel and lubricants it so desperately needed. While Fortress Ploesti is the narrative history of the entire air campaign to deny the Ploesti oil complex to the Axis powers, it is also a launching point for the author's inquiries into many aspects of the American strategic bombing effort in World War II. It delivers across the board. Stout, who served as a Marine F/A-18 pilot in the First Gulf War, asks questions about aviation combat history and technique that any modern combat pilot would be dying to ask. He carries the ball far beyond the goal post set by all other Ploesti historians. He has gone out of his way to describe the defenses throughout the campaign, and he brings in the voices of Ploesti's defenders to complement the tales of Allied airmen who brought Ploesti to ruin. He describes the role of the bombers, as well as that of the fighters, the ant-aircraft defenses, even the technique of obscuring the Ploesti complex with smoke. In the end, Stout's narrative describes the entire Ploesti effort for the very first time in print, and, by proxy, guides the reader through the intricacies of the entire Allied strategic bombing campaign in Europe, and all the weapons and techniques the Axis powers used to parry it. His lucid presentation of complex issues at the tactical and strategic levels is impressive. Jay Stout's previous books include Hornets Over Kuwait, his Gulf War memoir and, as co-author, The First Hellcat Ace., Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war machine the fuel and lubricants it so desperately needed.While Fortress Ploesti is the narrative history of the entire air campaign to deny the Ploesti oil complex to the Axis powers, it is also a launching point for the author's inquiries into many aspects of the American strategic bombing effort in World War II. It delivers across the board. Stout, who served as a Marine F/A-18 pilot in the First Gulf War, asks questions about aviation combat history and technique that any modern combat pilot would be dying to ask. He carries the ball far beyond the goal post set by all other Ploesti historians. He has gone out of his way to describe the defenses throughout the campaign, and he brings in the voices of Ploesti's defenders to complement the tales of Allied airmen who brought Ploesti to ruin. He describes the role of the bombers, as well as that of the fighters, the ant-aircraft defenses, even the technique of obscuring the Ploesti complex with smoke. In the end, Stout's narrative describes the entire Ploesti effort for the very first time in print, and, by proxy, guides the reader through the intricacies of the entire Allied strategic bombing campaign in Europe, and all the weapons and techniques the Axis powers used to parry it. His lucid presentation of complex issues at the tactical and strategic levels is impressive.Jay Stout's previous books include Hornets Over Kuwait, his Gulf War memoir and, as co-author, The First Hellcat Ace.
LC Classification Number
D766.42.P56S76 2003
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