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Oil refineries arc gooel targets, The smoke stacks and tank clusters of the Auvtr i.m oil plant at Vienna suffer from this B-ITs bombs,
DECEMBER,1944
OITrsea') Staff Correspondent,
On ;\.'mTlllber
took place
than 1,100
2,
mer
Sth
19-H, the biggC',;t air b~lttle of the w.ir
Cernl;lll:' wlicu half of a force of more
i\n I' orcc hcal I lxnubcrx. escorted I)\,'
900 fightcrs, .rtt.tckccl the gWlt ] .cuu.i \I'nthctie oil refiner,at
\ILT\chlllg, lor the fir\t time in u i.n r, \lCCKs, t hc Luf t-
\laffc, wh ich had rt-ni.u ncd in hiding \lh;le ,\l1icd hOlllhers
"'lTC laying w.r-.tc \I'holc cit icx, ro-«: to defend ~I Llrgct, ,\1ll1
its ficrcc rcvr.t.i nrc and the rccklessncss with wliith its c.i rcfullv
huvlxmckxl fighters were cxpcndcd-20S ',.;lI,i pl.mc-,
were dcstroycd-testificd to the desperation of the Reich
with rcgard to its gasolinc sit u.rt ion.
It is more than jnst a figlllc of xpccch , tlu-rcforc, to S~I\'
that the picture of a bucllv m.i ulcd Ccrman, clrivcn behind
t hc defensive h;IStiO!1S of its homcl.md is a portrait m oil.
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