Subject: Greatest Strategic Air Missions?
From: "Keith Willshaw"
Date: 8/21/2004 2:01 PM Pacific Standard Time
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"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:23:23 -0700, "Leadfoot"
wrote:


Biggest strategic campaign, of course, would be Linebacker II.


I'd suggest the oil campaign against Germany in WW2
was rather more significant.

Keith

Absolutely. But it was a two pronged effort combining strategic and tactical
missions. The heavies hit targets like Ploesti we hit rhe oil storage farms and
traffic moving out of refineries like truck convoys and oil storage around
airfields and wherever we could find them. But many operations combind both
stragoic and tactical in combination. To think of them as totally separate is
to be thinking WW I.




Arthur Kramer
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