Pete Stickney wrote:

There's some evidence that POL was seen as a weak point in the early
days of WW 2.

Absolutely it was. Even after the U.S. jumped in POL was considered a good
payoff target...the problem was (IIRC) that the entire POL system (from
production to distribution) was so dispersed that only the production node was
seen as vulnerable to air strike and the effects of hitting production much too
delayed. After Ploesti, no serious strikes on POL facilities took place again
until the Spring before D-Day.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"