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Re: Need opinions on two books
Nokase,
Fortress Ploesti is a history of all the attacks on the Ploesti oil refinery system. It is 263 pages long, with 236 pages of text; the rest being two appendices, footnotes, bibliography and index.
The first 80 pages cover HalPro and Tidal Wave. There are then short chapters on most of the raids, including a chapter on British night raids. Not a lot of detail on the raids; damage done, aircraft lost, an anecdote or two. No list of losses, or participating aircraft. Chapters on the Germans, Rumanians and Bulgarians.
I would say a good overview of the missions, but not a lot of details. For that you will have to look elsewhere, which at this point I think means the original records.
Frank.
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