Apollo: One gas environment?

On 2004-05-14, Pat Flannery wrote:

I would think that, by forcing the Allies to slog through Italy from
1942-44, Germany and the Axis countries possibly delayed the eventual
invasion of Europe via France by as much as a year. (Granted, the
invasion might still have had to wait until June of '44 just to assemble
the mass of warmaking machinery and the vehicles to deliver it that was
required for a successful invasion.)


Italy gave us a base from which to operate B-17s and B-24s against the
Axis oil fields, like Ploesti- which would have been out of range from
Britain. My dad's B-24 squadron was in on some of the Ploesti strikes.

Ploesti was also raided from Egypt, mind you, and I believe in one
rather innovative attempt a large raid was staged from England, over a
major Eastern European taget (can't recall where) and then into the
USSR. Not the greatest of sucesses...

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-Andrew Gray