Ploesti: The Great Ground-Air Battle Of 1 August 1943 - Plot & Excerpts
Marshall, New York Herald Tribune by James Dugan and Carroll Stewart A THOUSAND MILES INSIDE ENEMY TERRITORY! Twenty years ago, 1,763 Americans headed their unescorted Liberator bombers toward Ploesti, the German oil refinery deep in Rumania. Their impossible task was to destroy, from zero altitude, a fortress more heavily defended than Berlin itself. They were told that their mission would shorten the war by six months. Hundreds of men volunteered to go, even though 50 per-cent casualties were predicted. But that didn't mat- ter. Their goal was to blast the refinery to dust -- at any cost. "PLOESTI is an epic. It is packed with fierce, tender, tragic, breakneck action, and, too, with random and haphazard heroism and terror and horror. All the immemorial ingredi- ents of war: speed and brutality and devotion and death." -- Chicago Tribune PLOESTI The Great Ground-Air Battle of 1 August 1943 BY JAMES DUGAN AND CARROLL STEWART PLOESTI A Bantam Book / published by arrangement with Random House, Inc.
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