June 16

  • BOMBERS BLAST VIENNA OIL REFINERIES

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 6 minutes

    Foggia Airfield Complex, Southeast Italy • June 16, 1944 On this date in 1944 nearly 600 B‑17 Flying Fortresses and B‑24 Lib­er­ators from the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force took off from bases in Foggia, South­eastern Italy, to attack oil refin­er­ies around Vienna, Austria, and Bra­tislava, Czecho­slo­va­kia. After Romania, Austria was the big­gest Axis crude oil pro­ducer,…

  • BOMBERS BLAST VIENNA OIL REFINERIES

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 6 minutes

    Foggia Airfield Complex, Southeast Italy · June 16, 1944 On this date in 1944 nearly 600 B‑17 Flying Fortresses and B‑24 Liberators from the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force took off from bases in Foggia, South­eastern Italy, to attack oil refin­er­ies around Vienna, Austria, and Bra­tislava, Czecho­slo­va­kia. After Romania, Austria was the big­gest Axis crude oil pro­ducer,…