Avgas Coming Down?
Jim Macklin wrote:
At the end of WWII the Japanese sent their largest
battleship to defend Okinawa with only enough fuel to make
the trip one-way. We sank it before it got there.
European oil was in limited supply. The US Army Air Corps
bombed the German controlled oil field in Eastern Europe and
the refineries. Germany developed synthetic oil.
If Hitler had had more oil the Russians would speak German.
-Robert
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