Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell · 1941

Jan 1, 1941Documented record76% confidence

“s plans to bomb the Romanian Ploesti oil fields as the Germans had constructed a powerful air defence system around them. Wavell stated that air defence system of radar stations, searchlights, flak batteries, and fighter squadrons would make it almost impossible to bomb the oil fields. On 13 January 1941, Wavell on Churchill”

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