[FreedomPoster]

The “precision bombing” campaign was amazingly imprecise, and the Germans were really good at hiding industrial operations.

It wasn’t until we started bombing oil and refinery production facilities that we hit on the right target, and really ground the German mechanized war machine to a halt. Think the raid on Ploesti, among others. Those facilities were much harder to move/hide.

[jmacusa]

While bombing the oil refineries had n impact, It was, from an account I read that an American businessman told General Carl Spaatz that destroying ball bearing factories would really have a more critical effect. Fuel is important to a war machine, no doubt. But ball bearings are those little things that make big steel machines move.