Air Campaign #: The Oil Campaign 1944-45

Draining the Wehrmacht's lifeblood

Air Campaign #: The Oil Campaign 1944-45
Steven J Zaloga, Edouard A Groult
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Paperback
h248 x 184mm - 96pg
23 Jun 2022 UK
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9781472848543
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A new illustrated history of one of the key air campaigns of late World War II - the American effort to cripple Germany' s oil production, and grind its armed forces to a halt. With retreating German forces losing their oilfields on the Eastern Front, Germany was reliant on its own facilities, particularly for producing synthetic oil from coal. However, these were within range of the increasingly mighty Allied air forces. In 1944 the head of the US Strategic Air Forces, General Carl Spaatz was intent on a new campaign that aimed to cripple the German war machine by depriving it of fuel. The USAAF' s Oil Campaign built up momentum during the summer of 1944 and targeted these refineries and plants with its daylight heavy bombers. Decrypted German communications made it clear that the Oil Campaign was having an effect against the Wehrmacht. Fuel shortages in the autumn of 1944 forced the Luftwaffe to ground most of its combat units except for fighters involved in the defense of the Reich. Fuel shortages also forced the Kriegsmarine to place most of its warships in harbor except for the U-boats and greatly hampered German army campaigns such as the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944-45. This fascinating book packed with key photos and illustrations examines the controversies and debates over the focus of the US bombing campaign in the final year of the war, and the impact it had on the war effort overall.

"Big Week" 1944: Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe
Air Campaign: Sink the Tirpitz 1942-44: The RAF and Fleet Air Arm Duel with Germany's Mighty Battleship
Air Campaign: Six-Day War 1967: Operation Focus and the 12 hours that changed the Middle East
Arctic Convoys 1942: The Luftwaffe cuts Russia's lifeline
Battle of Berlin 1943-44: Bomber Harris' Gamble to End the War
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-41: RAF Coastal Command's Hardest Fight Against the U-boats
Battle of the Atlantic 1942-45: The climax of World War II's greatest naval campaign
D-Day 1944: The deadly failure of Allied heavy bombing on June 6
Desert Storm 1991: The most shattering air campaign in history
Gothic Line 1944-45: The USAAF Starves out the German Army
Guadalcanal 1942-43: Japan's Bid to Knock Out Henderson Field and the Cactus Air Force
Ho Chi Minh Trail 1964-73: Steel Tiger, Barrel Roll, and the secret air wars in Vietnam and Laos
Holland 1940: The Luftwaffe's first setback in the West
Italian Blitz 1940-43, The: Bomber Command's War Against Mussolini's Cities, Docks and Factories
Japan 1944-45: LeMay's B-29 Strategic Bombing Campaign
Kamikaze Campaign 1944-45, The: Imperial Japan's last throw of the dice
Legion Condor 1936-39: The Luftwaffe Develops Blitzkrieg in the Spanish Civil War
Malaya and Dutch East Indies 1941-42: Japan's air power shocks the world
Malta 1940-42: The Axis' Air Battle for Mediterranean Supremacy
Norway 1940: The Luftwaffe's Scandinavian Blitzkrieg
Oil Campaign 1944-45, The: Draining the Wehrmacht's lifeblood
Operation Crossbow 1944: Hunting Hitler's V-weapons
Operation Linebacker I 1972: The First High-Tech Air War
Ploesti 1943: The great raid on Hitler's Romanian oil refineries
Rabaul 1943-44: Reducing Japan's Great Island Fortress
Rolling Thunder 1965-68: Johnson's Air War Over Vietnam
Ruhr 1943, The: The RAF's Brutal Fight for Germany's Industrial Heartland
Schweinfurt-Regensburg 1943: Eighth Air Force's Costly Early Daylight Battles
Sinking Force Z 1941: The day the Imperial Japanese Navy killed the battleship
Stalingrad Airlift 1942-43: The Luftwaffe's broken promise to Sixth Army
Truk 1944-45: The destruction of Japan's Central Pacific bastion

Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for over three decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and military history, with an accent on the US Army in World War II as well as Russia and the former Soviet Union. He currently lives in Maryland.

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