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RE: Oil Targets
Posted by: TL ()
Date: December 06, 2000 01:27PM

<HTML>I agree with you on some of your points about it being a temporary set back but having worked in the oil refinery business and help design components for the industry I can tell you they are ALWAYS one step from becoming an inferno. It does not take much to put one in flames even 60 years later. A nice incendiary round would start a fire so bright that it could be used to navigate at sea.
I think the reason you needed waves of bombers three miles wide and five miles long is even with the norton bombsite the allies still were not getting the damage they wanted and Germany switched to cottage industries. But any damage to a U.S. facility especially in the war build up stages when production can not be moved easily to another location like it could two and three years later would have hurt the U.S. global response. You could attack it ONLY once though.
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Subject Written By Posted
Oil Targets Craig McLean 12/05/2000 02:06PM
RE: Oil Targets Anders Wingren 12/05/2000 02:35PM
RE: Oil Targets Fin Bonset 12/05/2000 02:49PM
RE: Oil Targets Fin Bonset 12/05/2000 02:46PM
RE: Oil Targets TL 12/05/2000 03:14PM
RE: Oil Targets kurt 12/05/2000 05:41PM
RE: Oil Targets TL 12/06/2000 01:27PM
RE: Oil Targets kurt 12/06/2000 11:49PM
RE: Oil Targets Rich Mickle 12/05/2000 11:15PM
RE: Oil Targets Fin Bonset 12/06/2000 12:25PM
RE: Oil Targets Capt. George W. Duffy 12/06/2000 12:17AM
RE: Oil Targets Romulo Figueiredo 12/06/2000 02:03AM


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