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The '''oil campaign chronology of World War II''' lists bombing missions and related events regarding the petroleum/oil/lubrication (POL) facilities that supplied [[Nazi Germany]] or those Germany tried to capture in [[Operation Edelweiss]].

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==Legend==
[[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]] — events regarding [[Nazi Germany]] petroleum, lubrication, and/or oil supplies<br />
[[File:COA Luftwaffe eagle gold (looking sinister).svg|20px]] - events regarding notable [[Luftwaffe]] defensive efforts against Allied attack of petroleum, lubrication, and/or oil supply targets<br />
[[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] and/or [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]] — events regarding Allied planning<br />
[[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] — RAF, [[Eighth Air Force]], and other roundels indicate units (most listings are from the RAF chronology<ref name=CampaignDiary>Bomber Command Campaign Diary</ref> and the USAAF chronology)<ref name=McKillop>McKillop</ref>
"'''100 BG'''" — listings that include the unit abbreviation (BG is Bombardment Group) are from the corresponding mission history for the unit.<ref>'''Mission histories for Bombardment Groups''':

: [http://www.92ndma.org/missions.htm 92 BG] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090515011722/http://www.92ndma.org/missions.htm|date=2009-05-15}}, [http://www.100thbg.com/mainpages/crews/crews1/jones_da1.htm 100thBG.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106212031/http://www.100thbg.com/mainpages/crews/crews1/jones_da1.htm|date=2009-01-06}}
'''301 BG ([http://32ndbombsquadron.com/32ndmissns.html 32 BS] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211020644/http://32ndbombsquadron.com/32ndmissns.html|date=2015-02-11}}), [http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/331.pdf 303rdBG.com], '''397 BG ([http://www.b26.com/page/pdf/596_Squadron_history_1945.pdf 596 BS] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306073207/http://www.b26.com/page/pdf/596_Squadron_history_1945.pdf|date=2009-03-06}}, [http://w384thBombGroup.com]{{dead link|date=April 2018|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, [http://www.398th.org/History/Articles/Remembrances/Ostrom_ShadyLady.html 398th.org]<br />
[http://www.401bg.com/history/aircraft.asp?acid=38758 401BG.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031130337/http://www.401bg.com/history/aircraft.asp?acid=38758|date=2007-10-31}}, 447BG ( [http://users.cybercity.dk/~nmb5433/missions1.html cybercity] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226224213/http://users.cybercity.dk/~nmb5433/missions1.html|date=2009-02-26}}, [http://www.447bg.com/43-37797.htm 43-37797], '''450 BG''' ([https://books.google.com/books?id=Zfn9qDog2b0C&pg=PA22 Cottontails]), [http://www.ccsu.edu/cppsr/VHP/homepage/veterans/Taylor_John.htm 452 BG], [http://www.461st.org/Missions/June1944.htm 461st.org], [[464th Bombardment Group|464 BG]] ([http://www.zplace2b.com/464/sortie.htm zplace2b]{{Dead link|date=February 2021|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}), [http://www.485thbg.org/485th_Missions.htm 485thBG.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724205041/http://www.485thbg.org/485th_Missions.htm|date=2011-07-24}}, [http://www.486th.org/Mssn/Prologue.htm 486th.org], [http://www.487thbg.org/missions.shtml 487thBG.com]</ref>

{|class="wikitable sortable"
|+valign=top  | Chronology
! width=12%         | Date
! width=16%         | Target/Topic
!                 | Event
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| {{sort|1940-05-15/16|May 15/16, 1940}}
| Oil and other installations in [[Ruhr]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] In response to the [[Rotterdam Blitz|bombing of Rotterdam]], Western Air Plan 5<ref name=Wuesthoff>{{Cite book|last=Wuesthoff|first=Scott E|title=The utility of targeting the petroleum-based sector of a nation's economic infrastructure|publisher=Air University Press|location=Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama|year=1994|pages=11|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/1458939/US-Air-Force-wuesthoff |access-date=2013-10-23}}</ref>{{Rp|4}} was activated. This was the first large-scale [[strategic bombing during World War II]]<ref name=Miller>{{Cite book|last=Miller |first=Donald L. |year=2006 |title=Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany |url=https://archive.org/details/mastersofair00dona |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn= 978-0-7432-3544-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/mastersofair00dona/page/53 53], 118,321,323}}</ref>{{Rp|53}} and the first attack on the German interior - it inflicted little damage.<ref name=Levine/>{{Rp|9,171}} Just 24 of 96 bombers dispatched to [[Ruhr Area]] power stations and refineries found the target area,<!--6 lost--><ref name=Overy>{{Cite book|last=Overy |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Overy |year=1997 |title=Why the Allies Won |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=boJ-K6sX-VsC&pg=PA108 |page=108 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0-393-31619-3}}</ref> setting several oil plants on fire.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mitcham|first=Samuel W|title=Eagles of the Third Reich: Men of the Luftwaffe in World War II|publisher=Stackpole Books|year=2007|pages=91–92|isbn=978-0-8117-3405-9}}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1940-05-16/17|May 16/17, 1940}}
| Oil installations in Ruhr
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 6 [[Handley Page Hampden]] and 6 [[Vickers Wellington]] bombers attacked Ruhr oil targets.
|-
| {{sort|1940-05-17/18|May 17/18, 1940}}
| [[Bombing of Hamburg in World War II|Hamburg]]-Harburg<ref name=Levine/>{{Rp|149}}
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 48 Hampdens attacked Hamburg oil installations.
|-
| {{sort|1940-05-17/18|May 17/18, 1940}}
| [[Bombing of Bremen in World War II|Bremen]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 24 [[Armstrong Whitworth Whitley]] bombers attacked Bremen oil installations.<ref group="note">{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0CE3DF1331E733A25752C1A9679D946797D6CF |quote=In 1906, [[Standard Oil]] included the German-American Petroleum Company, the Mannheim-Bremen Petroleum Company and, formerly known as Korff, the Petroleum Refinery. |work=New York Times |date=November 11, 1906 |title=German Trust To Oppose Standard Oil |access-date=2013-10-23}}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1940-05-18/19|May 18/19, 1940}}
| "Oil refineries"
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 24 Wellington, 24 Whitleys, and 12 Hampdens attacked oil refineries and railways in Germany and troops in Belgium.<ref name="BC Diary May–June">Bomber Command Diary May–June 1940</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1940-05-22/23|May 22/23, 1940}}
| [[Leipzig]]/[[Leuna]]<ref name=Caldwell/>{{Rp|198}}
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 35 Hampdens were recalled due to bad weather, but one failed to receive the recall and bombed the Leuna oil refinery, 30 miles west of [[Leipzig]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=McArthur |first=Charles W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AC1GlWYTe3EC&pg=RA1-PA208-IA11 |title=Operations analysis in the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force in World War II |publisher=American Mathematical Soc. |year=1990 |isbn=9780821801581}} P. 192.</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1940-05-27/28|May 27/28, 1940}}
| Bremen
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] Hampdens bombed oil refineries near Bremen. In the course of the raid, a tail gunner on a [[No. 10 Squadron RAF]] Whitley shot down the first German fighter by the RAF in World War II.
|-
| {{sort|1940-05-27/28|May 27/28, 1940}}
| Hamburg-Harburg refineries
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] Hampdens attacked oil refineries near Hamburg.
|-
| {{sort|1940-05-30/31|May 30/31, 1940}}
| Bremen
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The Bremen oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1940-05-30/31|May 30/31, 1940}}
| Hamburg-Harburg refineries
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] Hamburg oil refineries were bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1940-06-2/3|June 2/3, 1940}}
| oil targets
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 24 Whitleys and 6 Hampdens bombed "oil and communication targets in Germany".<ref name="BC Diary May–June"/>
|-
| {{sort|1940-06-04|June 4, 1940}}
| [[Bombing of Frankfurt am Main in World War II|Frankfurt]] oil depot
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The Frankfurt oil depot was attacked with 400 bombs.<ref name=Turner>{{Cite book|last=Turner |first=S.J. [[Royal Geographical Society|F.R.G.S]]—maps |date=June 1944 |title=Pictorial History of the Second World War |publisher=Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc. }}
* {{Cite book |author=S.J., F. R. G. S—maps |year=1944 |title=Vol. 1 [September 3, 1939—August 25, 1941] }}
* {{Cite book |author=S.J., F. R. G. S—maps |year=1944 |title=Vol. 2 [September 3, 1941—August 15, 1943] }}
* {{Cite book |author=S.J., F. R. G. S—maps |year=1946 |orig-year=1944 |title=Vol. 3 [September 3, 1943—September 1, 1944] }}
* {{Cite book |author=S.J., F. R. G. S—maps |date=September 1946|edition=Fifth |orig-year=March, 1946 |title=Vol. 4 [September 4, 1944—September 2, 1945] }}{{Page needed|date=July 2011}}<!--There also was a fifth (final) volume--></ref>{{Rp|150}} <ref group="note">Frankfurt also had a Naxos Union grinding wheel plant.<!--Supplement Part 6--></ref>
|-
| {{sort|1940-06-17|June 17/18, 1940}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] Leuna bombed.<ref name=Gilbert>{{Cite book|last=Gilbert |first=Sir Martin |author-link=Martin Gilbert |title=The Second World War |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |url=https://archive.org/details/secondworldwarco00gilb |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/secondworldwarco00gilb/page/98 98], 160,388 |isbn=978-0-8050-7623-3|access-date=2009-04-07 |date=June 2004}}</ref>{{Rp|98}}
|-
| {{sort|1940-09-4|September 4, 1940}}
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] Chiefs of Staff
| The Future Strategy report predicted "Germany's oil stocks might be exhausted--and Germany's situation disastrous--by June 1941."<ref name=Wuesthoff/>{{Rp|4}}
|-
| {{sort|1940-09-14/15|September 14/15, 1940}}
| [[File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg|12px]] [[Antwerp]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 43 Wellingtons bombed an oil depot near Antwerp. A Redeventza refinery was at Antwerp.<ref name="SupplementPart">Supplement Part 10 Table 3</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1941-01-09/10|January 9/10, 1941}}
| [[Gelsenkirchen]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] Less than half of 135 aircraft dispatched bombed the Gelsenkirchen synthetic oil plants.
|-
| {{sort|1941-02-10/11|February 10/11, 1941}}
| [[Hanover]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 222 aircraft (the highest number to one target) conducted the first "oil plant directive" mission on 17 oil production targets.
|-
| {{sort|1941-02-14/15|February 14/15, 1941}}
| Gelsenkirchen ([[Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex#1968–1993|Nordstern]])
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 9 Wellingtons bombed
|-
| {{sort|1941-02-28|February 28, 1941}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] To enable bombing of "Roumanian oil installations", a British Expeditionary Force established a 'Balkan front'.<ref name=Gilbert/>{{Rp|160}}
|-
| {{sort|1941-06-22|June 22, 1941}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| The [[Operation Barbarossa|German invasion of the USSR]] included the [[Oil industry in Azerbaijan#World War II|goal to capture]] the [[Baku]] oilfields to increase their fuel reserves and their ability to retain lands captured in the war.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hellin |first=Frederick Phillip |date=1942-06-01 |title=Russia's Oil and Hitler's Need |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1942/06/russias-oil-and-hitlers-need/653693/ |access-date=2024-06-07 |work=The Atlantic |language=en |issn=2151-9463}}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1941-06|June 1941}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] [[Ploiești]]
| [[File:Red star.svg|12px]] The [[Soviet Air Forces|Soviet Union's VVS]] bombed Ploiești.{{ref|13.03}}{{Rp|11}}
|-
| {{sort|1941-07-14|July 14, 1941}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| [[File:Red star.svg|12px]] 6 VVS aircraft bombed Ploiești.{{ref|13.03}}{{Rp|11}}
|-
| 1942
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] [[Harnes]]
| The Kuhlman Fischer-Tropsch plant<!--WalterBedellSmith Part 10--> at Harnes was shut down briefly due to bomb damage.{{ref|13.20}}<!--
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{{Cite web |last=Stranges |first=Dr. Anthony |title=Fischer-Tropsch Archive |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org |access-date=2009-06-17 |publisher=Fischer-Tropsch.org |location=Washington, D.C.}}

: {{note|14.10|14.10}} {{Cite web |last=Western Axis Subcommittee |date=December 5, 1943 |title="Unknown" Synthetic Oil Plants of the Western Axis |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/B1870/b1870-0919-0973%20Item%2010.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821152433/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/B1870/b1870-0919-0973%20Item%2010.pdf |archive-date=August 21, 2008 |access-date=2009-05-11 |publisher=Enemy Oil Committee |pages=13}}
: {{note|13.20|13.20}} {{Cite web |title=The Fischer-Tropsch Process |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/gvt_reports/CIOSC/cios_20_mi/cios_20_6_22.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111011416/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/gvt_reports/CIOSC/cios_20_mi/cios_20_6_22.htm |archive-date=2007-11-11 |access-date=2009-03-26}}{{page needed|date=January 2013}}
: {{note|13.30|13.30}} {{Cite web |last=Western Axis Subcommittee |date=c. 1943 |title=Estimated Refinery Output in Axis Europe -- 1943 |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/B1870/B1870-0517-0541%20Item%208C.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327145036/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/B1870/B1870-0517-0541%20Item%208C.pdf |archive-date=2009-03-27 |access-date=2009-03-21 |publisher=Enemy Oil Committee}}<!--Is the Estimated Refinery Output document a part of the Axis Oil Position document?-->
:* {{Cite journal |title=Table IV: Hungarian Refineries}}
: {{note|13.40|13.40}} {{Cite web |last=Hartley |first=Harold |author-link=Harold B. Hartley |date=26 November 1943 |title=J.I.C (43) 480: The Axis Oil Position in Europe: November 1943 |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/A5464/A5464-0912-0943%20Item%2017.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821153033/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/A5464/A5464-0912-0943%20Item%2017.pdf |archive-date=21 August 2008 |access-date=2009-05-21 |pages=32 pdf pages |df=dmy-all}}
: {{note|13.50|13.50}} {{Cite web |date=February 6, 1945 |title=Meeting No. 45/6 |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/B1870/B1870-0073-0208%20Item%204.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821144535/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/B1870/B1870-0073-0208%20Item%204.pdf |archive-date=August 21, 2008 |access-date=2009-03-22 |publisher=Enemy Oil Intelligence Committee}}
:* {{Cite journal |title=Memorandum |page=19 of pdf}}
:* {{Cite journal |title=Minutes |page=20 of pdf}}
:* {{Cite journal |title=Annex |page=27 of pdf}}
:* {{Cite book |title=Weekly Survey No. 31 |date=2 February 1945 |publisher=Economic Advisory Branch |page=32 of pdf}}
:* {{Cite journal |date=6 February 1945 |title=Table I, Estimated Output … |page=33 of pdf}}
:* {{Cite journal |date=6 February 1945 |title=Table II … |page=34 of pdf}}
:* {{Cite journal |title=Table III Output Production Status … |pages=35–7 of pdf}}
: {{note|13.55|13.55}} {{Cite web |title=Index of Documents, Reel #304 |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/TOM%20304/TOC_TOM0304.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216185530/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/TOM%20304/TOC_TOM0304.htm |archive-date=2012-02-16 |access-date=2013-10-23}}
: {{note|13.60|13.60}} {{Cite web |date=February 12, 1945 |title=Status of the Enemy Oil Committee |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/B1870/B1870-0073-0208%20Item%204.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821144535/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/B1870/B1870-0073-0208%20Item%204.pdf |archive-date=August 21, 2008 |access-date=2009-03-22 |publisher=Enemy Oil Intelligence Committee |page=1}}
: {{note|13.70|13.70}} {{Cite web |date=August 1946 |title=Report On Investigations by Fuels and Lubricants Teams At The I.G. Farbenindustrie, A. G., Works, Ludwigshafen and Oppau |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Bureau_of_Mines/info_circ/ic_7375/ic_7375.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071108041008/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Bureau_of_Mines/info_circ/ic_7375/ic_7375.htm |archive-date=2007-11-08 |access-date=2009-03-21 |publisher=[[US Bureau of Mines]], Office of Synthetic Liquid Fuels}}
: {{note|13.80|13.80}} {{Cite web |title=Summaries: Microfilm 2, U.S. Government Technical Oil Mission |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/TOM%20143/TOM-143-0028-0042%20Reel%202%20Summaries.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716082714/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/TOM%20143/TOM-143-0028-0042%20Reel%202%20Summaries.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-16 |access-date=2009-05-21 |pages=15 pdf pages (last numbered 14)}} [http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/TOM%20002%20Partial/TOM-002_TOC.htm Table of Contents] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516121912/http://fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/TOM%20002%20Partial/TOM-002_TOC.htm|date=2008-05-16}}
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| {{sort|1942-04|April 1942}}
| [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]]
| After A-2 and the War Plans Division reported it as a target, Colonel [[Bonner Fellers]] identified Romanian oil was "by far the most decisive objective [and] the strategic target of the war".{{ref|13.03}}{{Rp|4}}
|-
| {{sort|1942-05-30|May 30, 1942}}
| [[Bombing of Cologne in World War II|Cologne]]
| The ''Kolnische Gummifaden Fabrik'' tire and tube factory at Deutz on the east bank of the Rhine was entirely destroyed.<ref name=Gurney/>{{Rp|215}}
|-
| 1942
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] [[Ministry of Economic Warfare]]
| The "Bombers' Baedeker" identified oil, communications, and ball bearings were "bottleneck" German industries.<ref>{{Cite journal|publisher=Ministry of Economic Warfare |title=The Bomber's Baedeker |location=PRO London |id=AIR 14/2662 }} (cited by Coffey, p. 237)</ref>
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| {{sort|1942-06-12|June 12, 1942}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești (Astra Română)
| The [[Egypt-Libya Campaign|Halverson project raid]] from Egypt was the first US mission against a European target — 10 aircraft bombed the Astra Română oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1942-06-25|June 25/26, 1942}}
| Bremen
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 1,067 aircraft attacking Bremen targets used [[GEE (navigation)|Gee]] with limited success, damaging the oil refinery, [[Focke-Wulf]] buildings, the [[Atlas Werke]], the [[Bremer Vulkan]] shipyard, the [[Norddeutsche Hütte]] AG steel mill, and 2 large dockside warehouses.
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| {{sort|1942-07-20|July 20, 1942}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| Hitler authorized [[Operation Edelweiss]] to capture the [[Oil industry in Azerbaijan#World War II|Soviet oil fields of Baku]]. On July 10, [[Hermann Göring]] had met with experts on how to [[Battle of the Caucasus#1941 operations|repair the Russian Maykop oil facilities]] (Germany also reassembled an oil facility in [[Kherson]], in Ukraine).<<ref>{{Citation |title=Contest of Follies: Plan Edelweiss and the German Offensive Across the High Caucasus |date=2018 |work=At War's Summit: The Red Army and the Struggle for the Caucasus Mountains in World War II |pages=94–134 |editor-last=Statiev |editor-first=Alexander |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/at-wars-summit/contest-of-follies-plan-edelweiss-and-the-german-offensive-across-the-high-caucasus/435F4760DFCC41F19B9D0F9F643DCD23 |access-date=2024-06-07 |series=Cambridge Military Histories |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/9781108341158.005 |isbn=978-1-108-42462-2}}</ref> The Soviets set the Maikop oilfields on fire on August 9, the town was evacuated on the 16th,<ref name=Turner/>{{Rp|737}}<!--On the 10th the Germans were 120 miles NW of the [[Grozny]] oilfields.--> and Nazi Germany began occupation in August.<ref name=Becker>

{{Cite journal|last=Becker |first=Peter W. |year=1981 |title=The Role of Synthetic Fuel In World War II Germany: implications for today? |url=http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1981/jul-aug/becker.htm |journal=Air University Review |location=[[Maxwell AFB]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222003452/http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1981/jul-aug/becker.htm |archive-date=2013-02-22 |access-date=2013-10-23}}</ref>
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| {{sort|1942-09|September 1942}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] [[Bucharest]]
| [[File:Red star.svg|12px]] The VVS bombed the oil installations.
|-
| {{sort|1942-09|September 1942}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| [[File:Red star.svg|12px]] The Soviet Union's VVS bombed the oil installations.
|-
| {{sort|1942-10|October 1942}}
| [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]]
| The US "Enemy Oil Committee" was established as a counterpart to the British "Technical Sub-Committee on Axis Oil" (Hartley Committee).{{ref|13.60}}
|-
| {{sort|1942-11|November 1942}}
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] Hartley Committee
| ''The Axis Oil Position in Europe, November 1942'' estimated that Romanian oil fields contribute 33% of Axis supplies.<ref name=CasablancaPapersMinutes/>{{Rp|41}}<!--The "Axis Oil Position" cites ''The Axis Oil Position in Europe, November 1942'' (the page number in the latter needs identified)-->
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| {{sort|1942-12-03|December 3, 1942}}
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]] Joint Intelligence Subcommittee
| The ''German Strategy in 1943'' predicted Nazi Germany will have increased domestic oil supplies in mid-1943.<ref name=CasablancaPapersMinutes/>{{Rp|42}}
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| {{sort|1942-12-21|December 21, 1942}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| A German armoured column within 30 miles of the Soviet Sixth Army near [[Stalingrad]] had to retreat due to having fuel for only 15 miles. At his HQ company Christmas party, [[Erwin Rommel]] received a miniature oil drum as a gift (containing captured British coffee).<ref name=Gilbert/>{{Rp|388}}
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| {{sort|1943-01-16|January 16, 1943}}
| [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]] C/AS Management Control{{ref|13.22}}{{Rp|5}}
| After [[Hap Arnold]] created the [[United States Army Air Forces]] Committee for Operations Analysis (COA) on December 9, 1942,[https://books.google.com/books?id=rVVeO4B985wC&pg=PA11] to develop a plan for strategic bombing, the COA's initial ''Western Axis Oil Industry'' report listed the following order of strategic importance: hydrogenation facilities (15 plants), refineries (29 plants), lubrication plants, coker units, Fischer-Tropsch facilities, [[tetraethyllead]] facilities, and oilfields/pipelines.<ref name=Wuesthoff/>{{Rp|6}}
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| {{sort|1943-01-19|January 19, 1943}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| The ''Axis Oil Position'' (C.C.S. 158) at the Allied [[Casablanca Conference]] identified it would be "remote" for Nazi Germany to retain the Maikop oil fields. However, "even if the whole of the Romanian production were knocked out early in the year, ''[Germany]'' would still have enough for operations in 1944 [but the destruction of] two tetraethyllead factories… would hamstring the production of German aviation fuel" ([[Brehon Somervell]]).<ref name=CasablancaPapersMinutes/>{{Rp|41,256}} Nazi Germany destroyed the Maikop facilities prior to withdrawing.<ref>{{Cite web|title=World War II: Caucasuses [sic] Campaign (1942) |url=http://histclo.com/essay/war/ww2/camp/eur/sov/stalin/w2we-cau.html|publisher=histclo.com |access-date=2013-10-23}}{{bettersource|date=October 2024}}</ref>
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| {{sort|1943-01-21|January 21, 1943}}
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]] [[Combined Chiefs of Staff]]
| [[Casablanca directive|C.C.S. 166/1/D]] identified oil facilities as the 4th bombing priority.<ref name=CasablancaPapersMinutes>

{{Cite book |date=January 1943 |title=Casablanca Conference: Papers and Minutes of Meetings |location=available at Dwight D. [[Eisenhower Presidential Library]]; Combined Chiefs of Staff: Conference proceedings, 1941-1945; Box 1 |pages=40–43,88,256 |publisher=Office of the Combined Chiefs of Staff |quote=[[Brehon Somervell]] … DECLASSIFIED … 10/29/73 … U.S. SECRET … BRITISH MOST SECRET … COPY NO. 32}} (Brehon Somervell is stamped on the inside front cover of the Eisenhower Library copy, and the copy number is stamped on the inside back cover)
:'''C.C.S. 158''': {{Cite journal|date=January 19, 1943 |title=Axis Oil Position }} (pages 40-2)
:'''C.C.S. 166/1/D''': {{Cite web|date=January 21, 1943 |title=The Bomber Offensive from the United Kingdom |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1943_CCS_166_1_D.jpg |via=WikiMedia Commons |format=jpg |quote=Approved by Combined Chiefs of Staff at their 65th meeting on January 21, 1943. ... You should take every opportunity to attack Germany by day [and] to destroy objectives that are not unsuitable for night attack }} (distributed version, pages 88-9)
:{{Cite journal|date=January 19, 1943|title=C.C.S. 62nd Meeting [minutes] |page=254 |quote=1. Axis Oil Position [pp. 255-257]}}
</ref>
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| {{sort|1943-03-08|March 8, 1943}}
| [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]] C/AS Management Control
| The COA's comprehensive plan identified the strategic bombing objective was to "bring about a high degree of destruction in a few really essential industries than to dissipate bombing efforts over a large number of targets [in] many industries." 19 vital industries were identified: Petroleum was 3rd (39 targets), "Synthetic rubber and rubber tires" were 6th (12 targets) and "Coking plants" were 10th (89 targets). In particular, destruction of 13 hydrogenation plants and 12 Ploesti refineries would reduce "German petroleum resources" by 90%.{{ref|13.22}}{{Rp|6}}
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| {{sort|1943-04-10|April 10, 1943}}
| [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]]
| "We must, therefore, apply [bombardment] to those specially selected and vital targets which will give the greatest return." (Arnold to [[Carl Spaatz]])<ref name=AAFRH>

{{Cite web|title=Army Air Force Research Histories |url=https://www.afhra.af.mil/Information/Studies/Numbered-USAF-Historical-Studies-101-150/ |publisher=AAF Historical Offices |access-date=2024-04-05}}
:{{note|13.03|13.03}} '''AAFRH-3''': {{Cite journal|last=Cruickshank |first=Earl |year=1944 |title=The Ploesti Mission of 1 August 1943 |page=vii |quote=''We must, therefore, apply ''[bombardment]'' to those specially selected and vital targets which will give the greatest return.''}} (p. vii: Arnold to Spaatz, April 10, 1943)<!--NOTE: in the pdf file, page 10 appears between pages 4 & 5-->
:{{note|13.10|13.10}} '''AAFRH-10''': {{Cite journal |title=The War Against the Luftwaffe: AAF Counter-Air Operations, April 1943-June 1944 |quote=SECRET … Classification Cancelled … JUN 8, 1959 ... the Bradley Plan [was the plan for ] troop build-up for the Eighth Air Force.<!--p. 84--> ... General Arnold prepared a "Plan to Assure the Most Effective Exploitation of the Combined Bomber Offensive" and submitted it to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9 October 1943.<!--p. 86-->}} (p. 84)<!--/467694.pdf-->
:{{note|13.18|13.18}} '''AAFRH-18''': {{Cite journal |title=The Early Operations of the Eighth Air Force and the Origins of the Combined Bomber Offensive }}
:{{note|13.19|13.19}} '''AAFRH-19''': {{Cite book|last=Stormont |first=John F. (Capt) |date=March 1946 |orig-year=1945 summer |title=The Combined Bomber Offensive: April through December 1943 |publisher=AAF Historical Office; Headquarters, Army Air Force |quote=SECRET … Classification Cancelled … JUN 10 1959}} (available at the Dwight D. [[Eisenhower Presidential Library]] in the "Collection of 20th Century Military Records, 1918-1950 Series I"; Historical Studies Box 35).
:{{note|13.22|13.22}} '''AAFRH-22''': {{Cite journal|last=Norris |first=Joe L. (Capt) |date=April 1947 |orig-year=1946 Winter-Spring |title=The Combined Bomber Offensive: 1 January to 6 June 1944 |page=6 |quote=SECRET … Classification Cancelled … JUN 10, 1959 … In December 1942 … Arnold … directed that the group of operations analysts under C/AS, Management Control, prepare … In compliance with this directive, the Committee of Operations Analysts submitted on 8 March 1943 a comprehensive report on Axis industry. … Nineteen vital industries were selected … which if destroyed would … stagnate the German war machine. (p. 6)}} (also available in Box 35)</ref>{{ref|13.03}}{{Rp|vii}}
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| {{sort|1943-04-20/21|April 20/21, 1943}}
| [[Police, West Pomeranian Voivodeship|Pölitz]]
| 339 bombers attacked the Stettin railyards, the Pölitz oil refinery, and [[Swinemünde]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gx85T-eYPdQC&pg=PA19]{{dead link|date=August 2019}}</ref> The Pölitz synthetic oil plant had been added to the [[Area Bombing Directive]] on February 14, 1942 (one day before it was issued), and a [[List of subcamps of Sachsenhausen|subcamp of Sachsenhausen]] near Pölitz provided [[forced labor]].
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| {{sort|1943-05-19|May 19, 1943}}
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]] CCS
| The [[Combined Bomber Offensive|CBO]] "[[Ira C. Eaker|Eaker]]" plan was approved and confirmed oil targets as the 4th primary objective ("contingent upon attacks against Ploesti").{{ref|13.10}}{{Rp|17}}<!--(pdf p23)-->
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|{{sort|1943-05-13/14; 06-12/13|May 13/14; June 12/13, 1943}}
| Bochum [[benzene]] plant
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px|RAF roundel]] [[Battle of the Ruhr]] bombings of the Bochum coal-producing center northwest of Essen damaged its "''extensive coke, gas, benzol,<!--({{langx|en|petrol[https://books.google.com/books?id=_HkHU5RJJekC&pg=PA261]/coal tar}})--> and iron, and steel plants.''"{{ref|13.19}}{{Rp|4,74–5,81}} In 1943, the [[No. 466 Squadron RAAF|466th]] bombed Bochum targets on March 29, May 13, October 9, and November 4.<ref>"'''466th'''" ([[No. 466 Squadron RAAF]]):

{{Cite web |title=466 Squadron Missions |url=http://www.halifaxlv827.co.uk/466missions.htm |work=466 Squadron |access-date=2009-04-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113051838/http://www.halifaxlv827.co.uk/466missions.htm |archive-date=2009-01-13 }}</ref> After a 92 BG mission to Bochum on August 12, 1943, 342 RAF aircraft also accurately bombed Bochum on September 29/30, 1943 when the German radar controller mistakenly directed fighters to [[Bombing of Bremen in World War II|Bremen]], 150 miles away.<ref name=Jones>{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=R. V. |author-link=Reginald Victor Jones |year=1978 |title=Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945 |location=London |publisher=Hamish Hamilton |isbn=0-241-89746-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/mostsecretwar0000jone/page/381 381] |url=https://archive.org/details/mostsecretwar0000jone/page/381 }}</ref>
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| {{sort|1943-05-16|May 16, 1943}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| The Advisory Council submitted the ''Air Attack on Ploesti'' ("SOAPSUDS") bombardment plan, which the [[Washington Conference (1943)|Trident Conference]] subsequently considered. On June 6 the plan was deemed "an important and desirable operation", and the "Planning committee" first met on June 25 ([[Uzal Girard Ent]] predicted losses of 75 aircraft). Training began on July 20/22 and ended July 29.<{{ref|13.03}}{{Rp|24,26,31,36,67–8}}
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| {{sort|1943-06-22|June 22, 1943}}
| Hüls
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] In the first large-scale daylight raid on the Ruhr, 170 of 235 B-17s bombed the Hüls oil refinery and [[synthetic rubber]] plant.{{ref|13.19}} A Hüls target was also bombed on December 28/29, 1941.
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| {{sort|1943-06-23/24|June 23/24, 1943}}
| [[File:Flag of Italy.svg|12px]] [[La Spezia]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] In the 2nd raid of [[Operation Bellicose]], 52 bombers damaged an "oil depot" and an "armaments store". By March 1, 1944, the La Spezia crude oil refinery was "Unused".<!--Part 10--><ref name=WalterBedellSmith/>
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| {{sort|1943-06-25/26|June 25/26, 1943}}
| [[File:Flag of Italy.svg|12px]] [[Bari]]
| Wellingtons of the [[Northwest African Air Forces|Northwest African Strategic Air Force]] bombed the "Bari, Italy oil refinery".
|-
| {{sort|1943-06-25/26|June 25/26, 1943}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] At the end of the first phase of the [[Combined Bomber Offensive]],{{ref|13.19}}{{Rp|15,80}} during the [[Battle of the Ruhr]] 473 aircraft unsuccessfully bombed Gelsenkirchen due to cloud and failure of Oboe equipment.<ref>Bomber Command Diary June 1943</ref>
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| {{sort|1943-07-9/10|July 9/10, 1943}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] In one of the last large raids of the [[Battle of the Ruhr]], 418 aircraft unsuccessfully  - due to misplaced marking - attacked Gelsenkirchen.<ref>Bomber Command Diary July 1943</ref>
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| {{sort|1943-08-01|August 1, 1943}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] [[Brazi]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] [[Operation Tidal Wave]] bombed the [[Petrobrazi Refinery|Creditul Minier refinery]] in Brazi.<ref name=Jablonski>{{Cite book|last=Jablonski |first=Edward |year=1971 |title=Airpower |url=http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=-38504524 |location=Garden City, New York |publisher=Doubleday & Company |access-date=2013-10-23}} '''4 volumes''':–––{{note|I|I}} Terror from the Sky (pages 1-168)–––{{note|II|II}} Tragic Victories (pages 1-192)–––{{note|III|III}} Outraged Skies (pages 1-136)–––{{note|IV|IV}} Wings of Fire (pages 1-218)</ref>{{Rp|II-161}}<!--Tragic Victories-->
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| {{sort|1943-08-01|August 1, 1943}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] [[Câmpina]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] [[Operation Tidal Wave]] bombed the [[Steaua Română]] refinery in Câmpina.
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| {{sort|1943-08-01|August 1, 1943}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Operation Tidal Wave bombed the Astra Română, Columbia Aquila, and Unirea Orion refineries at Ploiești (four [[Medal of Honor|Medals of Honor]] were awarded for the US Bomber pilots and four [[Order of Bravery]] to the Bulgarian fighter pilots to shoot them down)
|-<!--one Ploiești Tidal Wave listing is 8AF, one is 9AF-->
| {{sort|1943-08-01|August 1, 1943}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] Operation Tidal Wave bombed the Astra Română and [[Vega Refinery|Concordia Vega]] refineries at Ploiești (one [[Medal of Honor]] was awarded). The Enemy Oil Committee subsequently appraised that [[Operation Tidal Wave]] bomb damage at Ploiești caused "no curtailment of overall product output".{{ref|13.30}}
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| {{sort|1943-08-12|August 12, 1943}}
| Bochum
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Diverting from the Gelsenkirchen target, B-17 "Ain't It Gruesome" bombed Bochum. An unexploded 20&nbsp;mm shell struck the boot of Captain [[Clark Gable]], a gunnery observer on his third operational flight<ref>{{Cite magazine|magazine=Time |date=August 23, 1943 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,885057,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081214181743/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,885057,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 14, 2008 |title=People: Entertainers |access-date=2013-10-23}}</ref> Gable's footage is in the [[First Motion Picture Unit|FMPU]]'s propaganda film ''[[Combat America]]''.
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| {{sort|1943-08-12|August 12, 1943}}
| Recklinghausen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 183 B-17's are dispatched to synthetic oil installations at Bochum, Gelsenkirchen and Recklinghausen
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| {{sort|1943-08-12|August 12, 1943}}
| Gelsenkirchen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 384 BG bombed the Gelsenkirchen "oil refinery".
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| {{sort|1943-11-05|November 5, 1943}}
| Gelsenkirchen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 121: 229 of 323 B-17s bombed 495 tons{{ref|13.19}}{{Rp|164}} on the marshalling yard and oil plants.
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| {{sort|1943-11|November 1943}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| 96 of 328 B-17s bombed 238 tons<!--Except for the 328 (perhaps spelled incorrectly from 323), these numbers a subset of the previous listing. Perhaps this listing is the same as Mission 121 and the additional 257 tons of Mission 121 were dropped elsewhere, including the marshalling yard.--> on the "Hydrier Werke Scholven A.G." (damaged) and the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerke (missed). Gelsenkirchener Bergwerke plants were also at Duisburg-Hamborn (BRUCKHAUSEN Benzol Plant) and Dortmund.{{ref|13.50}} A Gelsenkirchen target was also attacked on November 19,{{ref|13.19}}{{Rp|163}} and Gelsenkirchen Mission 134 on November 19 was rerouted to bomb the German-Dutch border due to malfunctioning blind-bombing PFF equipment in bad weather.<!--McKillop-->
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| {{sort|1943-11-26|November 26, 1943}}
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] Hartley Committee
| "''losses of oil stocks … caused by Allied attacks during the first eight months of 1943 ''[were]'' 400,000 tons. … Approximately 75 per cent of Roumanian crude is a waxy, viscous oil which becomes solid at temperatures below 69''" degrees (J.I.C (43) 480).{{ref|13.40}}
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| {{sort|1943-12-30|December 30, 1943}}
| [[Ludwigshafen#World War II|Ludwigshafen]]–[[Ludwigshafen-Oppau|Oppau]]
| The 351 BG bombed the explosives factory at Oppau.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.usaaf-noseart.co.uk/plane.php?plane=devils-ball&code=404R|title=USAAF Nose Art Research Project - Devil's Ball|first=Mark|last=Bowden|website=www.usaaf-noseart.co.uk}}</ref> Prior to May 1944, explosives production was 99,000 metric tons/month, but in December 1944, the amount had dropped to 20,500;<!--Speer hardcopy p663 cites "Interim report issued by the Planning Bureau in January 1945"--> and after October 1944, German explosives were 20% rock salt.<!--Speer hardcopy 482--> The Mannheim-Ludwigshafen area was bombed in late 1943 to prevent recovery from previous bomb damage.{{ref|13.19}}{{Rp|169}} The Mannheim aircraft plant was bombed on October 19, 1944,{{ref|447}} and Mannheim had a Daimler Benz truck plant.<!--Summary Part 5-->
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| {{sort|1944-01-07|January 7, 1944}}
| Ludwigshafen
| 1,000 tons of bombs dropped on Ludwigshafen,<ref name=Arnold/>{{Rp|337}} and the 447 BG bombed the Ludwigshafen oil refinery. In addition to the nearby Oppau plants, Ludwigshafen targets included a small synthetic oil plant and an oil refinery that used the dehydrogenation process to improve "gasoline quality". Dr. Wurster of the Ludwigshafen Military Government was the "managing director of Oppau and Ludwigshafen."{{ref|13.70}} Ludwigshafen targets were subsequently bombed by the 8AF on March 2, March 31, and May 27.
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| {{sort|1944-01-12|January 12, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Italy.svg|12px]] [[Rijeka|Fiume]]
| The 317 BS bombed the oil refinery.<ref>http://www.b17pbemgame.com/317_bomb_squadron_roster.htm{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Circa January 1944, the Enemy Oil Committee identified that Italian refining had ceased in August 1943.{{ref|13.30}} Italian refineries were at Fiume (Ramsa plant), La Spezia, Leghorn, Trieste (Aquila & SIAF plants), and Venice.<ref name="SupplementPart" />
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| {{sort|1944-02-03|February 3, 1944}}
| [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Budapest, Sofia, Bucharest, and Vienna were identified as second priority objectives for 15AF "area attack".{{ref|27.25}}<!--cited by Davis, p. 456-->
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| {{sort|1944-03-05|March 5, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| "''To reduce output … to virtually zero in the six months following 1 March requires the destruction of 23 synthetic plants (about 3.3 million tons) and 31 refineries (about 3.7 million tons)<!--Supplement Part 10 p2--> ''[which]'' currently account for over 90 per cent of total Axis refinery and synthetic oil output''"<!--Supplement p3--> ([[Plan for Completion of Combined Bomber Offensive]]). The "German oil situation is extremely vulnerable to the scale of attack contemplated, and that the results of any appreciable damage to production would be disastrous." (US Petroleum Attache, March 6).<ref name=WalterBedellSmith>
{{Cite book|date=5 March 1944 |title=Plan for Completion of Combined Bomber Offensive |location=Dwight D. [[Eisenhower Presidential Library]]: SMITH, WALTER BEDELL: Collection of World War II Documents, 1941-1945; Box No.: 48 |publisher=HQ, U.S.S.T.A.F |quote=MOST SECRET … DECLASSIFIED … 4/4/74|title-link=Plan for Completion of Combined Bomber Offensive }}</ref>
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| {{sort|1944-03-25|March 25, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]] [[SHAEF]]
| Although Spaatz's claimed "''We believe [[Transportation Plan|attacks on transportation]] will not force the German fighters into action. We believe they will defend oil to their last fighter plane'''',<ref name=SpaatzCollection>

{{Cite journal|title=Spaatz Collection |location=[[Library of Congress]], Manuscript Division}}:
:{{note|27.10|27.10}} '''1943-12-27''': {{Cite journal|last=Arnold |first=Henry H. |author-link=Hap Arnold |date=27 December 1943 |title=[letter to Spaatz: "Dear Tooey"] |journal=Spaatz Collection |location=Box 14 |quote=we must use our initiative and imagination with a view of seeking out, destroying the German Air Force in the factories, depots, on the ground, or in the air, wherever they may be.}} (quoted by Mets note 51, pp. 191,383)
:{{note|27.25|27.25}} '''1944-02-03''': {{Cite journal|last=Arnold |first=Henry H. |author-link=Hap Arnold |date=3 February 1944 |title=Objectives for Area Attack [memorandum to Eaker] |location=available at AF/HSO microfilm, reel A5616, fr. 45 }}
:{{note|27.20|27.20}} '''1944-01-21''': {{Cite journal|last=Spaatz |first=Carl |author-link=Carl Spaatz |date=21 January 1944 |title=[message to Arnold] |journal=Spaatz Collection |location=Box 14}}
:{{note|27.30|27.30}} '''1944-02-15''': {{Cite journal|last=Hughes |first=Richard D. |date=15 February 1944 |title=Conference Held at A.E.A.F Headquarters, Stanmore 15 February 1944 [letter and notes]|journal=Spaatz Collection |location=Box 14}} <!--("letter" cited by Mets notes 49 & 50, pp. 190,383; "notes" cited by Mets note 89, pp. 201,385)-->
::{{note|27.35|27.35}} Col. Richard D. Hughes was Eaker's "target-selection specialist." (Coffey, p. 237)
:{{note|27.40|27.40}} '''1944-02-19''': {{Cite journal|last=Spaatz |first=Carl |author-link=Carl Spaatz |date=19 February 1944 |title=[message to Arnold] |journal=Spaatz Collection |location=Box 14}}
:{{note|27.50|27.50}} '''1944-03-24''': {{Cite journal|last=Spaatz |first=Carl |author-link=Carl Spaatz |date=24 March 1944 |title=Employment of Strategic Air Forces in the Support of OVERLORD |journal=Spaatz Collection |location=Box 14 |quote=We believe attacks on transportation will not force the German fighters into action. We believe they will defend oil to their last fighter plane.}} (quoted by Mets note 100, pp. 204,386)
:{{note|27.60|27.60}} '''1944-03-25''': {{Cite journal|date=<!--minutes are undated--> |title=Final Minutes of a Meeting held on Saturday, March 25, to Discuss the Bombing Policy in the Period Before 'OVERLORD' |journal=Spaatz Collection |location=Box 14 |quote="apart from the attack on the GAF, [German Air Force] the [[Transportation Plan|transportation plan]] was the only one which offered a reasonable chance of the air forces making an important contribution to the land battle during the first vital weeks of OVERLORD}} (quoted by Mets, p. 208)
:{{note|27.70|27.70}} '''1944-08-09''': {{Cite journal|last=Kuter |first=Laurence (Brig. Gen.) |author-link=Laurence Kuter |date=9 August 1944 |title=[memo to Arnold] |journal=Spaatz Collection |location=Box 15}} Kuter quotes an Air Ministry memorandum for the July 5 meeting. (cited by Mets note 60, pp. 269, 394: "staff meeting the British Chiefs of Staff ... 5 July 1944 ... Portal had tried to move Harris away from area bombing to join in the attacks on oil. ... the recommendation that emerged was a gigantic attack on Berlin")
:{{note|27.80|27.80}} '''1944-09-23''': {{Cite journal|date=23 September 1944 |title=Directives Agreed by DCAS, RAF, and Lieutenant General Carl Spaatz |journal=Spaatz Collection |location=Box 15 |quote=The German rail and waterborne [[Transportation Plan|transportation systems]]; [[Friedrichshafen#World War II|tank production plants and depots]], ordnance depots; and M.T. (motor transport) production plants and depots}} became the secondary priorities. (quoted by Mets note 23, pp. 260,393)
</ref>{{ref|27.50}} [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] decided that "''apart from the attack on the GAF,''[German air force]'' the [[Transportation Plan|transportation plan]] was the only one which offered a reasonable chance of the air forces making an important contribution to the land battle during the first vital weeks of OVERLORD''".{{note|27.60|27.60}}<!--cited by Mets, p. 208--> Control of all air operations was transferred to Eisenhower on April 14 at noon.{{ref|13.22}}{{Rp|5}}
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| {{sort|1944-04-05|April 5, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 230 bombers bombed Ploiești for the 1st time in 8 months,<ref name=Ambrose/>{{Rp|118}} beginning the "1944 Ploesti Campaign" (April 5-August 19: 5,674 sorties, 13,559 bomb tons, 254 aircraft lost).<ref name=Stout/>{{Rp|239}}<!--Appendix Two--> The 5th BW and 47th BW bombed the Ploeşti marshalling yards and adjacent oil facilities, and the 451 BG bombed the Ploiești oil refineries and marshalling yard [http://libraryautomation.com/nymas/usaaf7.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090316024723/http://libraryautomation.com/nymas/usaaf7.html |date=2009-03-16 }} (marshalling yards were next to an oil plant.){{Specify|which of the Ploeşti marshalling yards (as opposed to sidings at the plants) were next to an oil plant?|date=February 2009}} The Ploeşti marshalling yards were bombed on April 15 by the 15th AF and on April 24, by the 32nd BS, when the first use of the "Mickey" ([[H2X radar]]) was against Ploeşti.<ref name=Miller/>{{Rp|118}}
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| {{sort|1944-04-19|April 19, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| Bad winter weather had reduced [[Wehrmacht]] fuel consumption, and Luftwaffe fuel supplies were 574,000 tonnes.<ref name=Levine>

{{Cite book|last=Levine |first=Alan J |year=1992 |title=The Strategic Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LZ99c7ZlxxQC |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-275-94319-6 |access-date=2006-06-30 |page=9,144,177}}</ref>{{Rp|144}} "Whereas in 1939 our hydrogenation plants were producing 2 million metric tons equivalent of petroleum (including automobile fuel), the construction of new facilities up to 1943 provided an increase to 5.7 million metric tons, and the facilities scheduled for this year will raise the yearly output to 7.1 million metric tons." ([[Albert Speer]] to [[Adolf Hitler]]).<ref name=Speer/>{{Rp|655}}
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| {{sort|1944-04-24|April 24, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 34 B-24s of the 450 BG targeted the marshalling yards and bombed the "Vega Oil Refinery".
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| {{sort|1944-04|April 1944}}
| [[Salzbergen]] synthetic oil plant
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The "Hydrierwerke Salzbergen" was attacked.{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|2}}
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| {{sort|1944-05-01|May 1, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]]
| By May 1944, only 1.1% of Allied bombs had been used on oil targets.<ref name=Wuesthoff/>{{Rp|4}}
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| {{sort|1944-05-05|May 5, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The marshalling yards and oil refineries were bombed.<ref name=Levine/>{{Rp|153}} B-24s also bombed the Braşov<sup>450 BG</sup> & Ploiești marshalling yards on May 6.<ref name="milhist">{{Cite web|url=http://www.milhist.net/usaaf/ploesti.html|title=Web Page Under Construction|website=www.milhist.net|access-date=2009-04-23|archive-date=2009-03-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090313111659/http://www.milhist.net/usaaf/ploesti.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1944-05-09|May 9, 1944}}
| [[Bruges]], Belgium
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 12 Bostons achieved near misses at an oil depot at Bruges.
|-
| {{sort|1944-05-12|May 12, 1944}}
| Leipzig/[[Böhlen]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 353 was the 1st trial raid on oil targets<ref name=USSBS>
{{Cite web|last=D'Olier |first=Franklin |date=September 30, 1945 |title=The Attack on Oil |url=http://www.usaaf.net/surveys/eto |access-date=2009-02-10 |work=[[Strategic Bombing Survey (Europe)|The United States Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report (European War)]] |publisher=[[Air University (United States Air Force)|Air University]] Press |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040727153254/http://www.usaaf.net/surveys/eto/ |archive-date=July 27, 2004 }}</ref> to test the claim that the Luftwaffe would defend [[oil campaign of World War II|oil targets]] in Germany more than they had defended [[Transportation Plan|transportation targets]].<ref>
{{Cite journal|last=Haines |first=William (Lt. Col.) |date=6 June 1945 |title=ULTRA History of U.S. Strategic Air Force Europe vs. German Air Forces, SRH-013 }} (cited by Mets, pp. 212,386,392: "copy provided to author by Justice [[Lewis F. Powell]], Jr. Another copy is in the National Archives". p. 343: "Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. was a member of General Spaatz's staff in England in World War II.")</ref> RLV fighters put up their largest force ever, but five synthetic oil plants were successfully attacked<ref name=Caldwell>
{{Cite book|last=Caldwell |first=Donald |author2=Muller, Richard |title=The Luftwaffe Over Germany: Defense of the Reich |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZDLNaRbHD7 |pages=198, 204 |access-date=2008-11-15}}</ref>{{Rp|198}} with 1,718 tons of bombs. A diversionary raid made on the Zwickau aircraft depot faced 200 Luftwaffe fighters<ref name="The Strategic Bombing of Germany: 1940-1945">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LZ99c7ZlxxQC&pg=PA144 |title=The Strategic Bombing of Germany: 1940-1945 |isbn=9780275943196 |last1=Levine |first1=Alan J |year=1992 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing |access-date=2013-10-23}}</ref>
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| {{sort|1944-05-12|May 12, 1944}}
| [[Merseburg]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 353: The 384 BG bombed Merseburg.
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| {{sort|1944-05-12|May 12, 1944}}
| [[Lützkendorf]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 353: 87 planes hit oil facilities at Lützkendorf near Leipzig, which had a small Wintershall<ref>{{cite web|url=http://orbat.com/site/sturmvogel/ussbsnat.html |title=The How and Why Air Attacks Crippled the German Oil-Chemical Industry |access-date=October 24, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614072234/http://orbat.com/site/sturmvogel/ussbsnat.html |archive-date=June 14, 2011 }}</ref> crude oil refinery (100,000 tons/yr), a hydrogenation unit for blending gasolines, and a Fischer-Tropsch plant to process heavier gasoline cuts from synthesized oil.{{ref|13.80}}<!--pdf pages 2,5,11,14,15--> Plants were at {{sic|"Lützkendorf" and "Lützkendorf-[[Mücheln]]"}}.<ref name=WalterBedellSmith/><!--Part 10-->
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| {{sort|1944-05-12|May 12, 1944}}
| Zeitz
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 353
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| {{sort|1944-05-12|May 12, 1944}}
| [[Most (city)|Brüx]], Czechoslovakia
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 353 bombed Brüx. On December 15, 1942, Sudetenländische Treibstoffwerke AG (STW) had begun output of synthesized fuel from [[lignite|brown coal]] ({{langx|de|braunkohle}}) at the Maltheuren plant at Brüx.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chemopetrol.cz/html/index.php?s1=1&s2=5&s3=1&s4=6&lng=2 |publisher=chemopetrol.cz |language=cs |title=Unipetrol RPA - Rafinérie Litvínov a Kralupy nad Vltavou |access-date=2013-10-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070526223004/http://www.chemopetrol.cz/html/index.php?s1=1&s2=5&s3=1&s4=6&lng=2 |archive-date=2007-05-26 }}</ref>
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| {{sort|1944-05-13|May 13, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]] [[Bad Zwischenahn]], Germany
| [[File:COA Luftwaffe eagle gold (looking sinister).svg|20px]] First combat test flights of the [[Messerschmitt Me 163]]B rocket-powered interceptor fighter by ''[[Erprobungskommando]] 16'', intended for defense of petroleum/oil/lubricants industry targets.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://robdebie.home.xs4all.nl/me163/units.htm |title=Me 163B Komet - Me 163 units - Erprobungskommando 16 (EK 16) |last1=de Bie |first1=Rob |website=robdebie.home.xs4all.nl/me163.htm |publisher=Rob de Bie |access-date=28 September 2013}}</ref>
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| {{sort|1944-05-18|May 18, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești (Concordia Vega)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The [[464th Bombardment Group|464 BG]] bombed the Concordia Vega refinery.
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| {{sort|1944-05-19|May 19, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| Daily output of aircraft fuel had dropped from 5,850 to 4,820 metric tonnes; but the reserve of 574,000 tonnes was expected to last 19 months. On "'''May 12 ... the technological war was decided. ...with the attack ... upon several fuel plants ... a new era in the air war began. It meant the end of German armaments production''" (Speer).<!--Speer p412-3--> "''In my view '''the fuel''', [[Buna rubber]], and nitrogen plants represent a particularly sensitive point for the conduct of the war, since vital materials for armaments are being manufactured in a small number of plants<!--Speer hardcopy p414-->… The enemy has struck us at one of our weakest points. If they persist at it this time, we will soon no longer have any fuel production worth mentioning''" (Hitler).<ref name=Speer>

{{Cite book |last=Speer |first=Albert |author-link=Albert Speer |others=Translated by [[Richard and Clara Winston]] |date=1970 |title=Inside the Third Reich |url=https://archive.org/details/insidethirdreich00albe/page/412 |publisher=Macmillan |location=New York and Toronto |lccn=70119132 |isbn=978-0-684-82949-4 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/insidethirdreich00albe/page/412 412–3,414,415–7,419,655] |access-date=2009-03-17 }}</ref>{{Rp|413}} By May 28, fuel production had returned to the level prior to the May 12 raids.<ref name=Speer/>{{Rp|415}} The "''economic air raids ''[using]'' wise planning ''[by]'' the enemy began ... in the last half or three-quarters of a year''" before December 1944. "''Before that he was, at least from his standpoint, committing absurdities''" (Speer, December 1, 1944)<ref name=Speer/>{{Rp|419}}
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| {{sort|1944-05-26|May 26, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești (Româno-Americană)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The [[No. 205 Group RAF]] bombed the [[Petrotel Lukoil Refinery|Româno-Americană refinery]].<ref name=Stout/>{{Rp|239}}<!--Appendix Two-->
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| {{sort|1944-05-28|May 28, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 376 dispatched a record force of 1,282 bombers against plants and refineries, losing 50<ref>Levine ''The strategic bombing of Germany, 1940-1945'' p150</ref> including 400<!--Speer page 415--> in the 2nd trial attack of oil targets.<ref name=USSBS/> 63 B-24s bombed Merseburg/[[Leuna]], and Leuna resumed partial production on June 3 and reached 75% of capacity in early July.<ref name=USSBS/>
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| {{sort|1944-05-28|May 28, 1944}}
| Lützkendorf
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 486 BG again bombed Lützkendorf.
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| {{sort|1944-05-28|May 28, 1944}}
| [[Magdeburg]]/[[Königsberg in Bayern|Königsberg, Bavaria]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 376: 105 B-17s bombed an oil dump at Königsburg/Magdeburg. A Königsberg target was also bombed on June 20 (Mission 425), and Magdeburg also had a Junkers [[Jumo 211]] engine plant<!--Supplement Part 4--> (the 487 BG bombed the Magdeburg airplane factory on August 5, 1944.)
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| {{sort|1944-05-28|May 28, 1944}}
| Magdeburg/Rothensee
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 376: 55 B-17s bombed oil industry at Magdeburg/Rothensee. Bohlen-Rotha, Magdeburg-Rothensee, Ruhland-Scwarzheide (a 1937 Fischer-Tropsch plant), & Zeitz-Troglitz were the 4 plants (3 were for Bergius hydrogenation) of Braunkohlen Benzin AG ([[Brabag]]), which was formed on October 26, 1934.<ref name=Strange>{{Cite book |last=Strange |first=Anthony N |year=2000 |title=Germany's Synthetic Fuel Industry 1927-45 |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/presentations/AIChE%202003%20Spring%20National%20Meeting/Paper%2080a%20Stranges%20germany.pdf |format=pdfFischer.Tropsch.org |work= The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century |access-date=2009-10-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924013711/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/presentations/AIChE%202003%20Spring%20National%20Meeting/Paper%2080a%20Stranges%20germany.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-24 }}</ref> The Brabag subsidiary of Gesellschaft für Mineralölbau GmbH (established November 1936) designed the plants based on licensed information from other oil companies.<ref name=Strange/>
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| {{sort|1944-05-28|May 28, 1944}}
| [[Ruhland]]–[[Schwarzheide]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 376: 38 B-17s bombed an oil target at Ruhland/Schwarz-Heide.
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| {{sort|1944-05-28|May 28, 1944}}
| Zeitz
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 376: 187 B-24s bombed "Zeitz-Tröglitz". KZ Tröglitz was a [[List of subcamps of Buchenwald|subcamp of Buchenwald]]
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| {{sort|1944-05-29|May 29, 1944}}
| Pölitz
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 379: 224 B-24s bombed an oil terminal at Pölitz. "Poelitz/Stettin" was a synthetic plant,<ref name=WalterBedellSmith/><!--Appendix B--> and on May 13, clouds had forced 272 B-17s (Mission 355) dispatched to oil targets in W Poland to bomb Stettin ({{langx|pl|[[Szczecin]]}}) and [[Stralsund]].
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| {{sort|1944-05-28/29|May 28/29, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Ploiești was bombed.<ref name=Speer/>{{Rp|415}}
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| {{sort|1944-05-31|May 31, 1944}}
| Ludwigshafen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 447 BG bombed the oil refinery.
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| {{sort|1944-05-31|May 31, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]]
| The 485 BG bombed the {{sic|Redeventa}}<!--Table 2 spelling is RedeventZa--> Refinery. "Lumina Petromina" was an additional Romanian refinery not in Ploiești or Bucharest.<!--Supplement Part 10 Table 2-->
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| {{sort|1944-05-31|May 31, 1944}}
| [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]]
|The intelligence annex to the field order for the May 31 Ploiești mission stated "''Successful attacks on ''[the aircraft factories at the]'' [[Wiener-Neustadt]]er complex have raised oil to high priority. …destruction of remaining active capacity of Ploesti will create [a] critical situation for [the] entire Axis war effort and make possible further important inroads through attacks in Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Italy. ''[The]'' Eighth Air Force has now damaged all but 2 of the major synthetic plants in its area making it possible for Fifteenth ''[Air Force]'' to destroy sufficient refinery and synthetic capacity to ''[reduce total]'' production close to 75 percent. Destruction of vital installations in targets selected will immobilize Ploesti capacity for several months.''"<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bari |year=1944 |title=Fifteenth Air Force, The Air Battle of Ploiești |location=Italy |page=27}} (cited by Stout p. 137)</ref><ref>{{Cite book|year=1945 |title=The Air Battle of Ploesti Written in the Skies Over Romania by U.S. Fifteenth Air Force and 205 Group (RAF) Between 5 April and 19 August |publisher=[[:Category:Engineer battalions of the United States Army|941st Engineering Battalion]] |page=108}} (cited by Stout p. 137)</ref>
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| {{sort|1944-05-31|May 31, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| 32 B-24s of the 450 BG attacked the "Româno-Americană Oil Refinery", but failed due to the smoke screens.<ref name=Levine/>{{Rp|153}} The 450 BG also bombed the Româno-Americană refinery on June 6, 24, & July 15; and the Concordia Vega refinery on July 9, 22
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| {{sort|1944-06-05|June 5, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| A May 5 decoded message stated [[anti-aircraft artillery]] was being moved to Pölitz and [[Blechhammer]], and one on June 5 indicated the Luftwaffe was short of fuel. British intelligence concluded that the bombing of oil targets would be "crippling" in 3–6 months.<ref name="The Strategic Bombing of Germany: 1940-1945"/> Romanian production had been reduced from 200,000 tons in February to 40,000 in June.<ref name=Bauer/>{{Rp|1477}}
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| {{sort|1944-06-06|June 6, 1944}}<ref name=McKillop/>
| [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]]
| Spaatz ordered that "''the primary aim of the Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces would be to deny oil to the enemy''".<ref name=Ambrose/>{{Rp|118}}
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| {{sort|1944-06-06|June 6, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești (Dacia Română-485 BG, Româno-Americană-450 BG)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] In the 1st large-scale American attempt to use a dispersed bomber force to spread out fighter defenses in Romania, Ploiești was bombed<ref name=Ambrose/>{{Rp|118}} (the 485 BG bombed the Dacia Română oil refinery). Additional B-17s, including some Soviet-based for [[Operation Frantic]], attacked the [[Galați]] Airdrome: "''most oil from Ploesti must be shipped west over [the] Danube for refining.''" (annex of intelligence report)<ref name=Stout>

{{Cite book |last=Stout |first=Jay A |date=November 2003 |title=Fortress Ploesti: The Campaign to Destroy Hitler's Oil Supply |url=http://jayastout.com/jayastout_website_ver1_004.htm |page=145,190 |access-date=2009-02-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100622003425/http://www.jayastout.com/jayastout_website_ver1_004.htm |archive-date=2010-06-22 }}</ref>{{Rp|145}}
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| {{sort|1944-06-09 & 10|June 9 & 10, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Italy.svg|12px]] [[Porto Marghera]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Porto Marghera oil storage bombed.
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| {{sort|1944-06-10|June 10, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Italy.svg|12px]] [[Trieste]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s bombed an oil refinery at [[Trieste]].
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| {{sort|1944-06-10|June 10, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| 36 P-38s dive-bombed<!--ref name=McKillop/--> 3 Ploiești oil refineries by flying under the smoke screens.<ref name=Levine/>{{Rp|153}}
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| {{sort|1944-06-11|June 11, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] [[Constanța]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s bombed an oil installation at Constanța.
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| {{sort|1944-06-11|June 11, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] [[Giurgiu]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 461 BG bombed the Giurgiu oil storage. 80 miles southeast of Ploiești, Giurgiu was "the most important transshipment point in Europe".{{ref|13.03}}{{Rp|8}}
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| {{sort|1944-06-11|June 11, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg|12px]] [[Smederevo]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 485 BG bombed the {{sic|"Smedervo"}} oil refinery.
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| {{sort|1944-06-12/13|June 12/13, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The 1st RAF oil target bombing following the June 3 British Air Staff request for [[RAF Bomber Command]] to attack Ruhr oil plants<ref name=Levine/>{{Rp|146}} halted Nordstern production (1,000 tons/day of aviation fuel) for several weeks. THe main attack of the night was directed against lines of communication targets in France.<ref>Bomber Command Diary June 1944</ref>
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| {{sort|1944-06-13|June 13, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Italy.svg|12px]] Porto Marghera
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 461 BG targeted the Porto Marghera oil storage and hit the aluminum plant.
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| {{sort|1944-06-14|June 14, 1944}}
| [[Emmerich am Rhein]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 412: 61 B-24s hit the Emmerich, Germany oil refinery. Deutsche Gasolin plants were at Emmerich, Dollbergen, and Korneuburg.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110614072234/http://orbat.com/site/sturmvogel/ussbsnat.html]<!--ref>{{Cite web |title=The How and Why Air Attacks Crippled the German Oil-Chemical Industry |url=http://orbat.com/site/sturmvogel/ussbsnat.html |publisher=orbat.com/site/sturmvogel }}</ref-->
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| {{sort|1944-06-14|June 14, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Hungary.svg|12px]] [[Pétfürdő]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 BG bombed the Pétfürdő oil cracking plant. The 32 BS bombed a Budapest oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-14|June 14, 1944}}
| <sup>[''Expand'']</sup><!--split this mission into separate table rows-->
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s bomb oil targets [[Komárom]] (Hungary), and [[Osijek]] (Ipoil).<!--Supplement Part 10 Table 4.-->
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| {{sort|1944-06-14|June 14, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg|12px]] [[Sisak|Caprag]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s bombed oil target[s] at [[Sisak]]-Caprag.{{ref|13.30}}{{Rp|IV}} Caprag refining capacity was 120,000 tons/yr.<!--Supplement Part 10 Table 2-->
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| {{sort|1944-06-14|June 14, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Pardubice region
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s bombed an oil target at Pardubice.
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| {{sort|1944-06-14|June 14, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg|12px]] [[Osijek]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 39 B-24s of the 450 BG targeted the oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-14/15|June 14/15, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen ([[Buer, Germany|Scholven/Buer]])
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 3 bombs from 35 Mosquitoes fell into the plant area, and 3 civilians were killed outside the factory—a farmer, a lorry-driver, and a housewife.
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| {{sort|1944-06-15|June 15, 1944}}
| [[History of Hanover|Hanover (Deurag-Nerag)]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 414: 172 B-17s hit the Hanover/Misburg oil refinery, to which the Hanover-Misburg subcamp<ref>{{Cite web |title=Startseite |url=http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de/index.php%3Fid%3D412%26tx_ngaussenlager_pi1%255Baid%255D%3D248&usg=ALkJrhjzs0-CY4I8Yw8VM7FeKFO4ugq7IQ |language=de |access-date=2013-10-23 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> of [[Neuengamme concentration camp|Neuengamme]] provided [[forced labor]]. The Misburg refinery (1,060 workers) was 5 miles East of Hanover, and a decoy plant was about 2 miles from the refinery.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110614072234/http://orbat.com/site/sturmvogel/ussbsnat.html] Hanover also had three tire plants: Vahrenwalderstrasse, Nordhafen, and Marienwerder<!--Supplement Part 7--> (a [[synthetic rubber|rubber factory]] in Hanover was bombed on July 26, 1943, during [[Blitz Week]]).<ref name=Coffey>{{Cite book|last=Coffey |first=Thomas M. |year=1977 |title=Decision over Schweinfurt: The U.S. 8th Air Force Battle for Daylight Bombing |location=New York |publisher=David McKay Company |page=237,241}}</ref>{{Rp|241}}
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| {{sort|1944-06-16|June 16, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] [[Bombing of Vienna in World War II|Vienna]]/[[Floridsdorf]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-17s bombed the {{sic|Floridsdorf}} oil refinery.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Strategic Bombing Victorious |url=https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/1519688/strategic-bombing-victorious/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalmuseum.af.mil%2FVisit%2FMuseum-Exhibits%2FFact-Sheets%2FDisplay%2FArticle%2F1519688%2Fstrategic-bombing-victorious%2F |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=National Museum of the United States Air Force™ |language=en-US}}</ref> On this date the 464 BG bombed an oil blending plant at Vienna. Vienna was first bombed on March 17, 1944.<ref name=Bauer/>{{Rp|1477}}
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| {{sort|1944-06-16|June 16, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] [[Donaustadt|Kagran]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-17s bombed the {{sic|Kragan}} oil refinery<ref name=":0" />
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| {{sort|1944-06-16|June 16, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna ([[Lobau]])
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s bombed the Lobau oil refinery west of Vienna.<ref name=Baugher/><!--1944_4.html-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-16|June 16, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna [[Schwechat]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s bombed the oil refinery at Schwechat in Vienna. Schwechat also had an aircraft factory that was bombed on June 26, 1944; and became a separate city in 1954.
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| {{sort|1944-06-16|June 16, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s bombed the Winterhafen oil depot. [https://austria-forum.org/af/Bilder_und_Videos/Luftaufnahmen/Wien_Augen_des_Adlers/Wien_und_die_Donau/Winterhafen_in_der_Freudenau]
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| {{sort|1944-06-16|June 16, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of First Slovak Republic 1939-1945.svg|12px]] Bratislava (Apollo)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 38 B-24s of the 450 BG targeted the Apollo oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-16|June 16, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Hungary.svg|12px]] [[Szőny]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 461 BG bombed the "oil storage installations" and earned a commendation from the 49th Bomb Wing commander (Lee).
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-16|June 16, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Schwechat)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The oil refinery and the [[Heinkel|''Heinkel-Süd'']] aircraft factory were bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-16|June 16, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Winterhafen)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Winterhafen oil refinery bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-17|June 17, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] {{Specify|date=May 2009}}
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] B-26s attacked French fuel dumps.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-17/18|June 17/18, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] With most of the effort on railways, four Mosquitoes targeted the Scholven/Buer oil plant
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-18|June 18, 1944}}
| Bremen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The [[Bremen-Oslebshausen railway station|Bremen-Oslebshausen]] refinery was 1 of 11 locations bombed on this date.<ref name=Levine/>{{Rp|149}} Bremen Oslebshausen refining capacity was 100,000 tons/yr.<!--Supplement Part 10 Table 2-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-18|June 18, 1944}}
| Hamburg-Harburg refineries
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 421: B-17s bombed Hamburg-Ebano (18), Hamburg-Eurotank (54), Hamburg-[[List of German companies by employees in 1938|Ossag (38)]], and Hamburg-Schindler (36). The Ostermoor refinery was also at Hamburg.<!--Supplement Part 10 Table 2-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-18|June 18, 1944}}
| Hanover (Deurag-Nerag)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 421: 88 B-17s bombed the Hanover-Misburg oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-18 & 23|June 18 & 23, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Giurgiu
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 485 BG bombed the oil installations at Giurgiu.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-19|June 19, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] [[Sète]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 485 BG bombed the oil refinery. The Frontignan refinery was at Sète, and other small French refineries were at Gonfreville, Port Jerome, Martiques, Petit-Couronne, Etang de Berre, Dunkirk, L'Avere, [[Bec d'Ambès]], Courchalettes, Gravenchon, 2 plants at Donges,<!--Supplement Part 10 Table 3--> and a shale oil refinery was at Autun.<!--Supplement Part 10 Table 4-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-20 & 25|June 20 & 25, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] [[Balaruc-le-Vieux]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 BG bombed oil refineries at "Balaruc". A Balaruc-le-Vieux target was bombed on the 25th.[https://books.google.com/books?id=RjzLqxg6KlAC&pg=PT422]
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-20|June 20, 1944}}
| Hanover (Deurag-Nerag)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 425: 169 B-24s bombed the Deurag-Nerag crude oil refinery.<ref name=Gurney>

{{Cite book|last=Gurney |first=Gene (Major, USAF) |year=1962 |title=The War in the Air: a pictorial history of World War II Air Forces in combat |location=New York |publisher=Bonanza Books
|pages=172, 215, 217, 232}}</ref>{{Rp|217}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-20|June 20, 1944}}
| Hamburg-Harburg refineries
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 425: B-17s bombed oil refineries at Hamburg/Deut.Petr.AG (53), Harburg/Ebano (60), Hamburg/Eurotank (107), Hamburg/Rhenania-Ossag (50), Harburg/Rhenania (53), Hamburg/Schliemanns (54), and Hamburg/Schindler (26).
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-20|June 20, 1944}}
| Magdeburg/Rothensee
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 425: 95 B-17s bombed Magdeburg/Rothensee.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-20|June 20, 1944}}
| Pölitz
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 245 B-24s bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-21|June 21, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| The minimum number of [[flak gun]]s were ordered to be placed at Pölitz (200), Auschwitz (200), Hamburg (200), Brüx (170, Gelsenkirchen (140), Scholven (140), Wesseling (150), Heydebreck (130), Leuna (120), Blechhammer (100), Moosbierbaum (100), and Böhlen (70).<ref>{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rVVeO4B985wC&pg=PA317 | title = Germany and the Second World War: Volume VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5 | isbn = 9780198228899 | last1 = Boog | first1 = Horst | last2 = Krebs | first2 = Gerhard | last3 = Vogel | first3 = Detlef | date = 2006-05-04| publisher = Clarendon Press }}</ref> The Ruhland Fischer-Tropsch plant and other synthetic oil plants were fortified to be "hydrogenation fortresses" (e.g., the plants in the Leipzig area were protected by over 1,000 guns.) In addition to increased active defenses, the facilities ({{langx|de|hydrierfestungen}}) incorporated blast walls and concrete "dog houses" around vital machinery. 7,000 engineers were released from the German Army to provide technical support for oil facilities.<ref name=Levine/>{{Rp|149}} Aviation fuel production (thousands of tons) was reduced the most in June 1944 (Wolfgang Birkenfeld, 1964)<!--"history of the manufacture of synthetic fuel during the Third Reich"-->:<ref name=Bauer/>{{Rp|1479}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-21|June 21, 1944}}
| Ruhland-Schwarzheide
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 428: 123 B-17s bombed the Ruhland synthetic-oil plant south of Berlin [[Shuttle bombing|en route to Ukraine]]. That night, Luftwaffe bombers diverted to the Ukrainian base from a route to a nearby railroad target<ref name=Mets/>{{Rp|287}} and dropped 110 tons of bombs, destroying or damaging 69 of 114 B-17s at [[Poltava]],<ref name=Miller/>{{Rp|323}} along with 200,000 gallons of aviation fuel plus 253 gallons of aviation oil.<ref name=Infield>
{{Cite book|last=Infield |first=Glenn B. |year=1973 |title=The Poltava Affair: A Russian Warning, An American Tragedy |location=New York |publisher=Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. |lccn=72093628 |page=156}}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-21/22|June 21/22, 1944}}
| [[Wesseling]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 128 Lancasters, 6 Mosquitoes, and 5 Lancasters attacked the Wesseling synthetic-oil plant in 10/10ths low cloud using [[H2S radar]] (production loss was 40%). Chemische Fabrik Wesseling AG operated a Wesseling facility, and to replace Wesseling, in April 1944 a "large underground plant for synthetic oil manufactured from brown coal was started outside [[Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia|Bergheim]]".{{ref|13.50}} Wesseling also had a Deutsche Norton grinding wheel plant.<!--Supplement Part 6-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-21/22|June 21/22, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 123 Lancasters and 9 Mosquitoes attacked the synthetic-oil plant through cloud using Oboe skymarking and caused a loss of 20% production.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-22|June 22, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] ([[Gennevilliers]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The [[Standard Oil]] Gennevilliers plant, capable of producing 2,200 metric tonnes per month, was bombed.<ref name=Gurney/>{{Rp|172}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-22|June 22, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] Paris
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 432: 101 B-24s hit an oil dump at Paris.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-22|June 22, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] ([[Rouen]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 432: 33 B-17s hit the Rouen oil depot.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-22|June 22, 1944}}
| {{Specify|date=February 2009}}
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] B-26s attacked fuel dumps.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-22|June 22, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| In July, Hitler promised to have "hydrogenation plants protected by fighter planes",<!-Speer p482 of hardcopy--> and in August, a limited program was assigned the "highest priority".<!--Speer p485 of hardcopy--> "By sending the production of fighter aircraft soaring we can meet the greatest danger we face: the crushing of our armaments manufacture on the home front" (Speer, August 13).<!-Speer p485 of hardcopy-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-23|June 23, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] (Giurgiu)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s bombed Giurgiu oil storage.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-23|June 23, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed a Ploiești oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-24|June 24, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| B-24s bombed an oil refinery.<ref name="milhist" />
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-24|June 24, 1944}}
| Bremen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 438: 213 B-17s bombed Bremen oil industry. The 92 BG bombed the Bremen "oil storage complex".
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-25|June 25, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] [[Montbartier]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 441: 64 B-17s hit the Montbartier oil depot.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-25|June 25, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] [[Sète]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed Sète oil storage.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-25|June 25, 1944}}
|
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] 400+ B-26s and A-20s hit French fuel dumps at Foret d'Andaine, Foret d'[[Ecouves]], and [[Senonches]].
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-25/26|June 25/26, 1944}}
| [[Homberg (Duisburg)|Homberg]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 42 Mosquitoes bombed the Treibstoffwerke [[List of German companies by employees in 1907|Rheinpreußen]] synthetic-oil plant{{ref|13.55}} at Homberg/[[Meerbeck]] in the Ruhr.<!--Appendix D-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-26|June 26, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Schwechat)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Schwechat aircraft factory (''[[Heinkel]]-Sud'') and oil refinery were bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-26|June 26, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Poland.svg|12px]] [[Drohobycz]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 442: After being delayed one day due to weather, 72 B-17s left Poltava and [[Mirgorod]], USSR, joined with 55 P-51s from [[Pyriatyn]] to bomb the marshalling yard and oil refinery at Drohobycz <!--1 returned to the USSR because of mechanical trouble-->. Fifteenth Air Force P-51s met the formation 1 hour after the attack and escorted the B-17s to [[Foggia]] Italy; the B-17s were planned to transfer to UK bases on June 27 but bad weather delayed the move until July 5.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-26|June 26, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Floridsdorf)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Floridsdorf oil refinery and marshalling yard were bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-26|June 26, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] [[Korneuburg]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 461 BG bombed "a refinery in the open country near the small town of Korneuburg".
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-26|June 26, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna ([[Moosbierbaum]])
| The [[455th Air Expeditionary Wing#World War II|455th BG]] received a 2nd [[Distinguished Unit Citation]] for bombing the Vienna (Moosbierbaum) oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-26|June 26, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Lobau)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Lobau oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06|June 1944}}
| [[Heydebreck-Cosel|Heydebreck]]
| The Heydebreck oil/chemical facilities near [[Kędzierzyn-Koźle|Cosel]] and Blechhammer were first bombed in June 1944.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-27|June 27, 1944}}
| [[Blechhammer]] South
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 BG bombed the Blechhammer South synthetic oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-27|June 27, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Poland.svg|12px]] Drohobycz
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s bombed oil industry. The Drohobycz (Nafta) refinery produced 35,000 tons/year.<!--Supplement Part 10 Table 4.-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-28|June 28, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] Paris/[[Dugny]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 445: 18 B-17s hit the Dugny oil depot.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-28|June 28, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] [[Bombing of Bucharest in World War II|Bucharest]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] In Bucharest,<ref name=WalterBedellSmith/><!--Appendix B and Part 10 Table 2 identify Prahova Petrolul is in Bucharest--> where much of Ploiești's refined product was stored and distributed,<ref name=Stout/>{{Rp|190}} the 464 BG bombed the "{{sic|Prohava}} Petrolul" refinery and the 485 BG bombed the "Titan Oil Refinery".
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-28/29|June 28/29, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 33 Mosquitoes bombed [[Saarbrücken]] (which had an airfield and marshalling yards)<ref name="libraryautomation">{{Cite web|url=https://librarytechnology.org/vendors/|title=Library Technology Guides: Automation Companies in United States and Canada|website=librarytechnology.org}}</ref> and 10 bombed the Scholven/Buer oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-29|June 29, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Böhlen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 447: 81 B-17s bombed the Böhlen synthetic oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-30|June 30, 1944}}
| Blechhammer North & South
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 461 BG & 464 BG bombed the South plant, and the 32 BS bombed the North plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-30|June 30, 1944}}<ref name=Speer/>{{Rp|417}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| "Our aviation gasoline production was badly hit in May and June. The enemy has succeeded in increasing our losses of aviation gasoline up to 90 percent by June 22. Only through speedy recovery of damaged plants has it been possible to regain partly … however, aviation gasoline production is completely insufficient <ref>{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AC1GlWYTe3EC&pg=RA1-PA208-IA11 | title = Operations Analysis in the U.S. Army: Eighth Air Force in World War II | isbn = 9780821801581 | last1 = McArthur | first1 = Charles W | year = 1990| publisher = American Mathematical Soc. }}</ref> … If we cannot manage to protect our hydrogenation factories and our refineries by all possible means, it will be impossible to get them back into working order from the state they are in now. If that happens, then by September we shall no longer be capable of covering the Wehrmacht's most urgent needs. In other words, from then on there will be a gap which will be impossible to fill and which will bring in its train inevitable tragic consequences." (Speer to Hitler)<ref name=Bauer/>{{Rp|1479}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-30/07-01|June 30/July 1, 1944}}
| Homberg
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 40 Mosquitoes to Homberg oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-02|July 2, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Hungary.svg|12px]] [[Budapest]] (Shell)
| The [[456th Bomb Group|456 BG bombed the "previously-untouched" Shell Oil refinery]] at Budapest and earned its 2nd [[Distinguished Unit Citation]]. 31 aircraft bombed at mid-morning and were attacked three minutes after bomb release by 50 Bf 109s and 10 FW-190s of [[Jagdgeschwader 300]] and the [[Hungarian Air Force|Hungarian]] 101 Puma Group. The 744 BS lost 6 of 9 bombers in the target area and a seventh damaged beyond repair (36 KIA/MIA, 24 captured — the largest single-day loss for the group.) Budapest's three refineries were operated by Shell, Magyar Petrol, and Asvanyol-Fanto,{{ref|13.30}}{{Rp|IV}} and oil storage was at Budapest-[[Csepel]].{{ref|13.22}}{{Rp|40}} Budapest also was the site of the Duna [[Repülőgépgyár Levente II|Repülőgépgyár]] Szigentmiklos assembly plant for [[Messerschmitt Me 210]]s and 410s.<!--Appendix F.-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-03|July 3, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg|12px]] [[Belgrade]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 BG bombed the Shell oil depot at Belgrade.
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-03|July 3, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] [[Braşov]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed the Photogen oil refinery (formerly the Petroleum Refinery Transylvania).<ref>http://www.bbw.ro/articol_372/despina_automotive.html{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1944-06-11 & 07-13|June 11 & July 13, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Italy.svg|12px]] (Porto Marghera)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 485 BG bombed the "Marghera Oil Storage" near [[Mestre]].
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-06|July 6, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Italy.svg|12px]] (Porto Marghera)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 BG bombed the oil storage at Porto Marghera.
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-06|July 6, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| The 461st BG bombed Ploiești oil targets.
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-07|July 7, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]]
| The Joint Oil Targets Committee was set up.<ref name=Levine/>{{Rp|149}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-07|July 7, 1944}}
| Blechhammer North & South
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 365 bombers attacked the North and South plants.[https://books.google.com/books?id=jTXWGhwBacAC&pg=PA297]
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-07|July 7, 1944}}
| Leipzig
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Of 453 B-17s, 114 bombed Leipzig/[[Taucha]], 35 hit Leipzig/Heiterblick, 79 & 15 bombed the Erla fighter aircraft plants at Leipzig/Mockau & Leipzig/Abtnaundorf,<!--Appendix A of Oil Plan--> 46 hit Leipzig Deutsche Kugellager Fabrik (D.K.F.) ball bearing works.{{ref|13.22}}{{Rp|18}} (The Leipzig DKF plant was also bombed on December 3/4, 1943.)<!--Appendix F--> 35 hit Kolleda Airfield, 19 hit Leipzig Station and 7 hit Nordhausen. Leipzig/[[Taucha]] had an oil refinery<!--[http://www.92ndma.org/missions.htm]--> and a Mittledeutsche Jumo 211 engine plant.<!--Supplement Part 4--> In March 1944, the Leipzig A.T.G. plant could complete final assembly of [[Junkers Ju 88|Ju 88]] bombers at 10/month.<!--Supplement Part 9 p3--><ref name=WalterBedellSmith/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-07|July 7, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Böhlen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 64 B-17s, out of a 303-bomber force of Flying Fortresses hit the Böhlen oil plant.<ref name="Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces - July 1944">{{cite web|url=http://www.usaaf.net/chron/44/jul44.htm |title=Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces - July 1944 |publisher=usaaf.net |url-status=dead |access-date=2013-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527104023/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/44/jul44.htm |archive-date=2013-05-27 }}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-07|July 7, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 447 BG bombed Merseburg, and Leuna was shut down for 2 days. By July 19 production had risen to 53% of capacity.<ref name=USSBS/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-07|July 7, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Lützkendorf
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 102 B-24s, out of a 373-bomber force of Liberators hit the Lützkendorf oil plant.<ref name="Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces - July 1944"/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-08|July 8, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Floridsdorf)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]]  The 464 BG <ref name="libraryautomation" /> and [[465th Bombardment Group|465 BG]] earned [[Distinguished Unit Citation]]s,<ref name=Polk>{{Cite book|last=Polk |first=David |title=World War II Army Airborne Troop Carriers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X8zY_M6fWT4C&pg=PA48 |publisher=Turner Publishing |page=48 |access-date=2009-01-10 |isbn=978-1-56311-040-5 |date=December 1991 }}</ref> as the ''Heinkel-Süd'' plant in Floridsdorf was hit, destroying the third prototype of the [[Heinkel He 177#Further development-the Heinkel He 177B|He 177B]] four engined bomber, and possibly damaging the incomplete fourth prototype He 177B airframe.<ref>{{cite book |title=Heinkel He 177-277-274 |last1=Griehl |first1=Manfred |last2=Dressel |first2=Joachim |year=1998 |publisher=Airlife Publishing |location=Shrewsbury, England |isbn=1-85310-364-0 |page=170 }}<!--|access-date=November 11, 2012--></ref>
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-09|July 9, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| B-24s bombed an oil refinery.<ref name="milhist" />
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-11|July 11, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Italy.svg|12px]] (Porto Marghera)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 BG bombed the oil storage at Porto Marghera.
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-14|July 14, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Hungary.svg|12px]] Budapest
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed a Budapest oil refinery
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-14|July 14, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Hungary.svg|12px]] Budapest
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 26 B-24s of the 450 BG targeted the Ferencvaros marshalling yard and hit buildings, a factory, and a refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-15|July 15, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești (Unirea Speranţa)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 600+ B-17s and B-24s bombed 4 oil refineries in the Ploiești area and the "[[Teleajen]]ul pumping station".[http://www.milhist.net/usaaf/ploesti.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090313111659/http://www.milhist.net/usaaf/ploesti.html |date=2009-03-13 }} The 485 BG bombed the {{sic|Sperantza}} Oil Refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-16|July 16, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed a Vienna oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-17|July 17, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| Aviation fuel production was 2,307 daily tonnes (40% of original production).<ref name=Speer/>{{Rp|416}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-18|July 18, 1944}}
| [[Kiel]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 447 BG bombed Kiel oil targets.{{ref|447}} During the September 12 major assault on the German oil industry (Mission 626), 58 B-24s also bombed a Kiel target.
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-18|July 18, 1944}}
| [[Friedrichshafen World War II bombings|Friedrichshafen]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 BG bombed the [[Friedrichshafen World War II bombings|synthetic fuel plant at Oberaderach]].
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-18/19|July 18/19, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 157 bombers attacked. The raid "achieved complete surprise through radio silence"<ref name=Jones/>{{Rp|466}} and caused production to come to "a complete standstill for a long period".<ref name=CampaignDiaryJuly1944>{{Cite web|url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jul44.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611031257/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jul44.html|url-status=dead|title=Campaign Diary July 1944|archive-date=June 11, 2007}}</ref>

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| {{sort|1944-07-18/19|July 18/19, 1944}}
| [[Wesseling]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 188 heavy bombers. The bombing destroyed 20% of the installations.<ref name=CampaignDiaryJuly1944/>
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| {{sort|1944-07-20|July 20, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 447 BG bombed the Merseburg "synthetic oil refinery".
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| {{sort|1944-07-20/21|July 20/21, 1944}}
| Bottrop-Welheim
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 166 bombers attacked the Ruhröl AG synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches>{{Cite web|title=1944 air raids |url=http://www.historisches-centrum.de/index.php?id=418 |publisher=historisches-centrum.de |work=Historisches Centrum Hagen |access-date=2009-06-24}} [http://www.historisches-centrum.de/index.php?id=419 1944], [http://www.historisches-centrum.de/index.php?id=418 1945]</ref>
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| {{sort|1944-07-20/21|July 20/21, 1944}}
| Homberg
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 147 Lancasters attacked and caused severe damage
|-
| {{sort|1944-07-21|July 21, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Brüx
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed.
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| {{sort|1944-07-22 & 28|July 22 & 28, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești (Româno-Americană)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 BG bombed the Româno-Americană refinery.
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| {{sort|1944-07-23|July 23, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Albania.svg|12px]] Berat
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 14 B-24s of the 450 BG targeted the "Kucove Oil Refinery" and previous bombing obscured the aiming point (there were "near misses" on the "old refinery").
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| {{sort|1944-07-23|July 23, 1944}}
| Donges, France
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 119 aircraft attacked an oil refinery and storage depot at the start of a new campaign "against oil targets in the occupied Countries."
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| {{sort|1944-07-25/26|July 25/26, 1944}}
| Wanne-Eickel
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 135 bombers attacked the Krupp GmbH synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
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| {{sort|1944-07-28|July 28, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] [[File:COA Luftwaffe eagle gold (looking sinister).svg|20px]] Over Merseburg, the 92 BG bombed the synthetic oil refinery/storage, and the [[Messerschmitt Me 163|Me 163B Komet]] rocket fighters of I.Gruppe/[[Jagdgeschwader 400|JG 400]] conducted its first point-defense attacks from its nearby field at Brandis,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://robdebie.home.xs4all.nl/me163/airfield.htm |title=Me 163B Komet - Me 163B Airfields |last1=de Bie |first1=Rob |access-date=January 22, 2013}}</ref> engaging B-17s with escorts, including 8 P-51s of the [[359th Fighter Group]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Green |first=William |date=1971 |title=Rocket Fighter |location=New York |publisher=Random House |isbn=0345258932 |page=8}}</ref> Merseburg-Leuna was bombed 6 times from July 20-September 28.<ref name=Levine/>{{Rp|153}} Leuna attacks on July 28 & 29; August 24; September 11, 13, & 28; and October 7 kept Leuna closed until October 14.<ref name=USSBS/>
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| {{sort|1944-07-28|July 28, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești (Româno-Americană, Standard Petrol Block)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 BG bombed the Româno-Americană refinery and the 485 BG bombed the "Standard Oil Refinery" (B-24 44-40497 was abandoned after flying into the fireball of 41-29275).<ref name=Baugher/><!--1944-4-->
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| {{sort|1944-07-29|July 29, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| The 384 BG bombed Merseburg.
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| {{sort|1944-07-31|July 31, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| Luftwaffe fuel supplies were 35,000 tonnes in July.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Goralski |first1=Robert |url=https://www.usmcu.edu/portals/218/Oil&War_Web.pdf |title=Oil & war: how the deadly struggle for fuel in World War II meant victory or defeat |last2=Freeburg |first2=Russell W. |date=2021 |publisher=Marine Corps University Press |isbn=9780160953613 |edition=2 |pages=309}}</ref> By July 21, Production was reduced to 120 daily tonnes, but was restored to 690 by the end of July. However, repairs were not as durable and shocks from near misses caused leaks (from August to October, monthly production was 10% or less of original rates, then reached 28% in November.)<ref name=Speer/>{{Rp|417}}
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| {{sort|1944-07-31|July 31, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Bucharest
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Two oil refineries at Bucharest, one at [[Doicești]], and oil storage at [[Târgoviște|Targoviste]] were bombed.<ref>[http://www.milhist.net/usaaf/ploesti.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090313111659/http://www.milhist.net/usaaf/ploesti.html|date=2009-03-13}}</ref>
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| {{sort|1944-07|July 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| The [[461st Bombardment Wing#World War II|461st BG received a 2nd]] [[Distinguished Unit Citation]] for a July 1944 Ploiești bombing.
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| {{sort|1944-07-31|July 31, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești (Xenia)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 461 BG bombed the Ploiești Xenia oil refinery.
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| {{sort|1944-08-02|August 2, 1944}}
| <sup>[''Expand'']</sup><!--split this mission into separate table rows-->
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 510: Paris/Gennevilliers (51 B-17s), Paris/Dugny (38 B-17s), and [[Sens]] (26 B-24s) bombed. Fifteenth Air Force B-17s hit Le Pouzin ([http://www.461st.org/Missions/June1944.htm 461st BG]) and Le Pontet oil storage facilities. The 447 BG bombed the St Dennis "oil and supply dump".
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| {{sort|1944-08-03|August 3, 1944}}
| Friedrichshafen
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 461 BG's primary target was the "Raderach Chemical Works", and the [[ZF Friedrichshafen]] "Zahnradfabrik" ({{langx|en|[[gearwheel]] factory}} for [[Transmission (mechanics)|vehicle transmissions]]) secondary target was also bombed. The chief tank factories were at [[Maybach]], [[Römer|Nordbau (Frankfurt)]], and Zahnradfabrik,{{ref|13.22}}{{Rp|21}} and nearly all tank engines were produced at either the Maybach Motorenbau at Freidrichshafen and Norddeutsche Motorenbau at Berlin.<!--Summary Part 8-->
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| {{sort|1944-08-03|August 3, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg|12px]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 513: 62 B-24s bombed Brussels/[[Vilvoorde]] oil installations/dumps. The Ghent, Langerbrugge (Shell) plant was in Belgium.<!--Supplement Part 10 Table 3-->
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| {{sort|1944-08-03|August 3, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] [[Merkwiller-Pechelbronn]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 512: 106 B-17s hit the {{sic|Merkwille}} Oil Refinery. "Merkwiller, Pechelbronn, France" refining capacity was 130,000 tons/yr.<!--Supplement Part 10 Table 2-->
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| {{sort|1944-08-03|August 3, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Netherlands.svg|12px]] [[Terneuzen]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 513: 10 B-24s bombed [[Ghent]]/Terneuzen oil installations/dumps in the Netherlands.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-04|August 4, 1944}}
| Bremen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 50 B-17s bombed the Bremen-Oslebshausen oil refinery.
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| {{sort|1944-08-04|August 4, 1944}}
| [[Hemmingstedt]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 514: The Hemmingstedt/[[Heide]] oil refinery was bombed.
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| {{sort|1944-08-04|August 4, 1944}}
| Hamburg-Harburg refineries
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] [[File:COA Luftwaffe eagle gold (looking sinister).svg|20px]] 181 B-17s bombed Hamburg refineries. The 487 BG bombed the Nordholz refinery, and the 486 BG was attacked by [[Me 163 Komet]]s.
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| {{sort|1944-08-04|August 4, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] [[Ambès|Bec-d'Ambes]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The Bec-d'Ambes <!--See the RAF Chronology--> refinery that had opened at the Garonne/Dordogne river junction in 1931 was bombed.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=McDonald |first=Jason |title=RAF 3 Group Lancaster Attacks Bordeaux Refinery – The World War II Multimedia Database |url=https://worldwar2database.com/raf-3-group-lancaster-attacks-bordeaux-refinery/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |language=en-US}}</ref>
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| {{sort|1944-08-04|August 4, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] [[Pauillac]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The Pauillac oil store was bombed in clear conditions without encountering German fighters.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-06|August 6, 1944}}
| Hemmingstedt
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 524: 23 B-17s bombed Hemmingstedt.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-06|August 6, 1944}}
| Hamburg-Harburg refineries
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 524: Hamburg oil refineries bombed at Hamburg/Deutsche (54), Hamburg/{{sic|Eband}} (33), Hamburg/Rhenania (61), Hamburg/Rhenania-Ossag (62), Hamburg/Schlieman (32), and Hamburg/Schulau (72 B-17s). Rhenania-Ossag was a subsidiary of [[Royal Dutch Shell]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Boon |first1=Marten |last2=Wubs |first2=Ben |date=2020-04-02 |title=Property, control and room for manoeuvre: Royal Dutch Shell and Nazi Germany, 1933–1945 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00076791.2016.1205034 |journal=Business History |language=en |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=468–487 |doi=10.1080/00076791.2016.1205034 |issn=0007-6791|hdl=11250/2404833 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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| {{sort|1944-08-06|August 6, 1944}}
| [[Ludwigsfelde#Parts of the town|Genshagen]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 524: 74 B-17s bombed Genshagen, 45 hit Berlin diesel factories.
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| {{sort|1944-08-06|August 6, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] [[Le Pontet, Vaucluse|Le Pontet]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 BG bombed a refinery at Le Pontet.
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| {{sort|1944-08-06|August 6, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] [[Le Pouzin]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Le Pouzin oil storage bombed in SE France.[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3897/is_200212/ai_n9149821]
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| {{sort|1944-08-06|August 6, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] [[Lyon]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Lyon oil storage bombed in SE France.[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3897/is_200212/ai_n9149821]
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| {{sort|1944-08-07|August 7, 1944}}
| Blechhammer North & South
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 BG bombed the Blechhammer North synthetic oil plant, and the 461 BG bombed the South plant.<!--http://www.samoloty.ow.pl/str409a.htm-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-07|August 7, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg|12px]] [[History of Novi Sad|Novi Sad]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 76 B-24s bombed [[Alibunar]] Airfield and Novi Sad oil facilities in Yugoslavia.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-07|August 7, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] [[Dungy, France|Dungy]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 384 BG bombed the Dungy oil depot.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-07|August 7, 1944}}
| Blechhammer North & South
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 353 bombers attacked the synthetic oil refineries at Blechhammer South (B-17s) and North (B-24s).
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-07|August 7, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Poland.svg|12px]] [[Trzebina]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 528: 55 B-17s and 29 [[357th Fighter Group|P-51s]] attacked an "oil refinery at Trzebina, Poland" and returned to [[Operation Frantic]] bases in the Soviet Union.
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| {{sort|1944-08-08|August 8, 1944}}
| Hanover/[[Celtic circular wall of Otzenhausen|Dollberg]]
| The 398th BG bombed the Dollberg oil plant. Also known as Dollbergen, the village near Hanover had an oil refinery.[http://www.exulanten.com/bombc.html]
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-09|August 9, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The No. 205 Group RAF bombed the Româno-Americană refinery. The 205 Group also bombed Ploiești on August 17.<ref name=Stout/>{{Rp|239}}<!--Appendix Two-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-09|August 9, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg|12px]] [[Slavonski Brod|Brod]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-17s bomb an oil refinery at Brod, Yugoslavia.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-09|August 9, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Hungary.svg|12px]] [[Almásfüzitő]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s bomb an oil refinery at Budapest, Hungary. The 461 BG bombed the Almásfüzitő Oil Refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-10|August 10, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] Bec-d'Ambes
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 215 RAF aircraft dropped over 500 bombs and largely destroyed [https://web.archive.org/web/20090713072654/http://www.caltex.com/corp/en/History_Expansion.asp] the Bec d'Ambes refinery 15 miles from Bordeaux. Bordeaux was also bombed on December 31, 1944 and the [[Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission|Focke-Wulf plant]] at Bordeaux was bombed on August 24, 1943.<ref name=Arnold/>{{Rp|335–6}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-10|August 10, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] [[La Pallice (harbour)|La Pallice]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The La Pallice refinery 30 miles from Bordeaux was destroyed.<ref name=":1" />
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| {{sort|1944-08-10|August 10, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]] Gennevilliers
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Gennevilliers oil facility bombed <ref name=Gurney/>{{Rp|172}}
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| {{sort|1944-08-10|August 10, 1944}}
| [[Zeitz]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] [[Schwarzheide#History|The BRABAG synthetic oil plant]] in Zeitz was bombed.<ref name=Gurney/>{{Rp|172,232}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-10|August 10, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 450+ B-17s and B-24s bombed 6 oil refineries.[http://www.milhist.net/usaaf/ploesti.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090313111659/http://www.milhist.net/usaaf/ploesti.html |date=2009-03-13 }} The 464 BG bombed the Astra Română refinery, and the 461 BG bombed the Xenia oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-14|August 14, 1944}}
| {{Specify|date=February 2009}}
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 552: attacked 1 oil plant
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-15|August 15, 1944}}
| Magdeburg/Rothensee
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 556 bombed Magdeburg/Rothensee. The 487 BG had bombed the Magdeburg [[Focke-Wulf]] airplane factory on August 5, and the US Ninth Army captured Magdeburg on April 18, 1945.<ref name=Turner/><!--{{Rp|1897}}-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-15|August 15, 1944}}
| Leipzig/[[Rositz]] [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1941/1941%20-%200252.html]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 556: 105 aircraft bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-15|August 15, 1944}}
| Zeitz
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 556: 101 aircraft bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-16|August 16, 1944}}
| Friedrichshafen
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 485 BG bombed the "Ober[raderach] chemical works".
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-16|August 16, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Rositz
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The Rositz oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-16|August 16, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Böhlen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 92 BG attacked the Böhlen oil refinery in Leipzig.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-16|August 16, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Rositz
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 487 BG bombed the Rositz oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-16|August 16, 1944}}
| Zeitz
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 487 BG bombed the Zeitz oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-17|August 17, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Three oil refineries and targets of opportunity were bombed in the Ploiești area: Româno-Americană (by the 461 BG on their last Ploiești mission), "Astra Română Refinery" (450 BG){{Specify|the third refinery needs identified|date=October 2008}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-18|August 18, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești (Româno-Americană)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 370 fighter-escorted B-17s and B-24s bombed 5 oil refineries around Ploiești. The 464 and 485 BGs bombed the {{sic|"Americano"}} refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-18/19|August 18/19, 1944}}
| Oberhausen (Sterkrade)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 234 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-19|August 19, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 65 B-17s with 125 P-51s escorts bombed 2 Ploiești area oil refineries. Ploiești was captured August 30<ref name=McCullough>{{Cite book|editor-last=McCullough |editor-first=David G.  |year=1966 |title=The American Heritage World War II Chronology |publisher=[[American Heritage (magazine)|American Heritage]] Publishing Co., Inc. |lccn=66024214}}</ref><ref name="historia">{{cite web|url=https://historia.ro/sectiune/general/actul-de-la-23-august-1944-in-viziunea-celui-de-al-577850.html|title=Actul de la 23 august 1944 în viziunea celui de-Al Treilea Reich|author=Lucian Dobrovicescu|language=ro|work=Historia|access-date=14 February 2024}}</ref> after a total of 350 bombers had been lost attacking the area.<ref name=Jablonski/>{{Rp|172}}<!--Tragic Victories--> The Fifteenth Air Force had dropped 12,804 tons of explosives on Ploiești targets,<!--ref name=Davis/> Bombing the European Axis Powers {{Rp|541}}--> On October 17, a Fifteenth Air Force B-17 carried a photo crew to Ploiești.<!--McKillop-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-20|August 20, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of First Slovak Republic 1939-1945.svg|12px]] [[Dubová, Pezinok District|Dubová]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The oil refinery at Dubová was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-20|August 20, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Poland.svg|12px]] [[Oswiecm|Dwory]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] First of 3 raids<!--Aug 20, Sep 13, and Dec 18 & 26--> on the [[IG Farben]] [[synthetic rubber]] and oil plant near the Auschwitz III ([[Monowitz]]) [[forced labor]] camp that supplied slave labor: "''It was the practice to brief bomber groups to steer clear of prisoner-of-war and concentration camps''" (radar navigator-bombardier Milt Groban).<ref name=Miller/>{{Rp|321}} [[Ultra (cryptography)|Ultra]] intercepts reported impressive bombing results for oil targets: "''for the first time, wehrwirtschaftlich ({{langx|en|war economy}}) raids, which might deal a really fatal blow to Germany, had begun''" (Speer).<ref name=Miller/>{{Rp|328}} The town of Auschwitz (now called [[Oświęcim]]), the IG Farben Buna-Werke (under construction in November 1943),<!--Appendix F--> and the three concentration camp locations [[Auschwitz]] I, Auschwitz II ([[Auschwitz II|Birkenau]]), & Auschwitz III ([[Monowitz]]) were [http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2008/09/page/2/ 5 separate facilities in the same region.]{{Specify|What was the greatest distance between any 2 of the 5?|date=May 2009}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-20|August 20, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Poland.svg|12px]] [[Czechowice-Dziedzice]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 BG bombed the oil refinery at Czechowice. The [[List of subcamps of Auschwitz|Tschechowitz I & II subcamps]] of [[Auschwitz]] in Czechowice-Dziedzice provided [[forced labor]] for a [[SOCONY-Vacuum]] plant.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sub-Camps of Auschwitz Concentration Camp |url=http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/h/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=33 |work=Auschwitz-Birkenau: Memorial and Museum |publisher=auschwitz.org.pl |access-date=2009-05-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602054834/http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/h/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=33 |archive-date=2009-06-02 }}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-21|August 21, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 484 BG received its second DUC for bombing an underground oil storage installation at Vienna.[http://libraryautomation.com/nymas/usaaf7.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090316024723/http://libraryautomation.com/nymas/usaaf7.html |date=2009-03-16 }}
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-22|August 22, 1944}}
| [[Vogelsang (Odertal)|Odertal]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-17s bombed the oil refinery at Odertal, Germany ({{langx|de|Deschowitz}}, {{langx|pl|[[Zdzieszowice]]}}). POW camp E162 was at Odertal.[http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/veteransR.htm]
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-22|August 22, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Korneuburg
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s bombed the oil refinery at Korneuburg. The 485 BG bombed the "{{sic|Koreneuberg}} Oil Storage".
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-22|August 22, 1944}}
| Blechhammer
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s bombed the oil refinery at Blechhammer.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-22|August 22, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Lobau)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s bombed the Lobau oil refinery. The 461 BG bombed the underground oil storage at the refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-23|August 23, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna ([[Vösendorf]])
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Vösendorf oil refinery was bombed in the southern industrial area of Vienna.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-24|August 24, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Brüx
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 568: 139 B-17s hit Brüx.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-24|August 24, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Pardubice region
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 485 BG bombed the Pardubice oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-24|August 24, 1944}}
| Dresden/[[Freital]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 568: 65 B-17s bombed Freital oil industry. This mission to Freital and Dresden was the 486 BG's longest mission. Dresden had a "Dresden Reick A.G." grinding wheel plant.<!--Supplement Part 6-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-24|August 24, 1944}}
| Hanover (Deurag-Nerag)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 568: 88 B-24s bombed the Misburg oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-24|August 24, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 568: 185 B-17s bombed Leuna/Merseburg.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-24|August 24, 1944}}
| Ruhland-Schwarzheide
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 568: 135 B-17s hit Ruhland.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-24|August 24, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] [[Kolín]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Three oil refineries were bombed at Kolín.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-24|August 24, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Pardubice region
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 BG earned a [[Distinguished Unit Citation]]<ref name=Polk/>{{Rp|48}} for bombing the Fanto Werke refinery at Pardubice.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-25|August 25, 1944}}
| Pölitz
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 570: 169 B-17s bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-26|August 26, 1944}}
| [[Dülmen]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 576: 73 B-24s bombed the Dülmen fuel dump.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-26|August 26, 1944}}
| Emmerich am Rhein
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 576: 36 B-24s bomb the Emmerich oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-26|August 26, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of France.svg|12px]]
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] IX Bomber Command, with fighter escort, bombed French fuel dumps at [[Saint-Gobain]], [[Fournival]]/Bois-de-Mont, [[Compiègne]]/[[Clairoix]].
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-26|August 26, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 576: 85 B-17s bombed Gelsenkirchen/Nordstern.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-26|August 26, 1944}}
| Ludwigshafen-Oppau
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 576: 41 B-24s bombed the "chemical works".
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-26|August 26, 1944}}
| Salzbergen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 576: 71 B-24s bombed the <!--"Wintershell" is the spelling in the quote-->"{{sic|Wintershell}} oil refinery" (60,000 tons/year) at Salzbergen.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-26|August 26, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 576: 89 B-17s bombed the Gelsenkirchen/Buer oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-27|August 27, 1944}}
| Homberg
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The RAF restarted daylight bombing of Germany with an attack on the Homberg Fischer-Tropsch plant.<ref name=Levine/>{{Rp|149}}<!--Davis p. 420 says the target was the "Meerbeck benzoyl plant in Homberg".-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-27|August 27, 1944}}
| Blechhammer South
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 and 485 BGs bombed the Blechhammer South synthetic oil plant (the 485th commander became a POW).[https://web.archive.org/web/20090713012850/http://www.485thbg.org/485th_Stories.htm]
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-28|August 28, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Moosbierbaum)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-17s hit Moosbierbaum oil refinery and adjacent chemical works.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-28|August 28, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Hungary.svg|12px]] Szőny
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 and 485 BGs bombed the oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-29|August 29, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Pardubice region
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] [[German occupation of Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakian]] oil refineries bombed included the [[Moravská Třebová|Moravská]]–[[Ostrava]] oil refineries<!--McKillop--> A minor Moravská Ostrava crude oil refinery was at Prwoz.<ref name=WalterBedellSmith/><!--Part 10, Table 4-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-08-30|August 30, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Romania.svg|12px]] Ploiești
| [[File:Flag of USSR.svg|12px]] Soviet [[Red Army]] forces reached Bucharest on August 28, and the Ploiești oilfields on August 30.<ref name=Caldwell/>{{Rp|204}}<ref name="historia"/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-03|September 3, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]]
| After a lull in [[V-1 flying bomb]] attacks, the Allied Combined Strategic Targets Committee (CSTC){{ref|4}} switched the top bombing priority from [[Operation Crossbow]] to oil targets.<ref name=Kreis>

{{Cite book|last=Kreis |first=John F |author2=Cochran, Alexander S. Jr. |author3=Ehrhart, Robert C. |author4=Fabyanic, Thomas A. |author5=Futrell, Robert F. |author6=Williamson, Murray |year=1996 |title=Piercing the Fog: Intelligence and Army Air Forces Operations in World War 2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rf_7ioBSUCgC&pg=PA241 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher= Air Force Historical Studies Office |pages=241 |access-date=2008-11-28 |isbn=978-1-4289-1405-6}}</ref>{{Rp|241}} 39% of US bomb tonnage from Oct-Dec was on synthetic oil plants.[https://books.google.com/books?id=_HkHU5RJJekC&pg=PA261]
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-03|September 3, 1944}}
| Ludwigshafen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 601: 325 of 345 B-17s bombed the Ludwigshafen/{{sic|Opau}} synthetic oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-05|September 5, 1944}}
| Ludwigshafen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 605: 277 of 303 B-17s bombed the Ludwigshafen synthetic oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-07|September 7, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]] [[Organisation Todt|Ministry of Armaments and War Production]]
| After Speer completed the ''Effects of the Air War'' on September 6,<!--ref name=Speer/>{{Rp|655}}--> the President of the [[Organisation Todt#Intra German|Rustungskommando VI (5)]] ordered only 3 days or less of production be stored, and emergency preparation for the transfer of POL plants was initiated (e.g., identification of vital parts for removal).{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|a2}} "''On principle, plants are only to be crippled temporarily by removing various elements to safety, particularly the electrical ones.''" (Speer telegram, September 13).<!--hardcopy page 662--> August "chemical plant" production was 10% of former capacity.<!--Speer p417--> At the beginning of September, 1944, the Luftwaffe minimum fuel allotment was decreased from 160,000 monthly tons to 30,000 due to shortages.<ref name=Galland>

{{Cite book|last=Galland |first=Adolf |author-link=Adolf Galland |year=1968 |title=The First and the Last: The Rise and Fall of the German Fighter Forces, 1938-1945 |location=New York |publisher=Ballantine Books |pages=210, 224, 239 |orig-year=1954}}</ref>{{Rp|210,224}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-08|September 8, 1944}}
| Ludwigshafen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 611: 348 of 384 B-17s attacked the Ludwigshafen/Opau oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-08|September 8, 1944}}
| [[Bombing of Kassel in World War II|Kassel]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 611: 166 B-17s bombed an oil depot at Kassel.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-10|September 10, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 344 B-17s and B-24s bombed 5 ordnance depots and the SE industrial area in Vienna and 2 oil refineries in the area.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-10|September 10, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Schwechat)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed the Schwechat oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-11|September 11, 1944}}
| [[Castrop-Rauxel]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The synthetic oil plant was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-11|September 11, 1944}}
| [[Chemnitz]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 623: An [[Operation Frantic]] force of 75 B-17s bombed the Chemnitz oil refinery and, along with 64 P-51s, continued to the USSR. In 1945, Chemnitz was also bombed on February 14 and the 466th bombed Chemnitz on March 5.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-11|September 11, 1944}}
| [[Dortmund]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The Dortmund synthetic oil plant was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-11|September 11, 1944}}
| [[Fulda]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 623: At Fulda, 66 B-17s bombed the tire plant and 40 bombed the marshalling yard. Fulda also was the location of Gebauer & Moller ball bearing plant, and on September 12 (Mission 626), 46 B-17s bombed a Fulda target.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-11|September 11, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]]
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-11|September 11, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The Scholven/Buer synthetic oil plant was bombed. The RAF bombed a Gelsenkirchen target on September 29/30, as did the 466th on September 12 & 13, November 6 (the 466th bombed a Münster target on September 12 and March 25, 1945).
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-11|September 11, 1944}}
| Hanover (Deurag-Nerag)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 623: 87 B-24s bombed the oil refinery at Misburg and 88 bombed an engine factory at Hanover.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-11|September 11, 1944}}
| [[Kamen]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The synthetic oil plant at Kamen was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-11|September 11, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Böhlen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 623: 75 B-17s bombed the Böhlen oil refinery. Böhlen was also bombed on August 15 (Mission 556), and the 384 BG bombed "Böhlen/Leipzig" on March 19, 1945.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-11|September 11, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 623: 111 B-17s bombed Merseburg.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-11|September 11, 1944}}
| Lützkendorf
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 623: 96 B-17s bombed Lützkendorf.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-11|September 11, 1944}}
| Magdeburg
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 623: At Magdeburg, 33 B-24s bombed the oil refinery and 27 bombed an ordnance depot.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-11|September 11, 1944}}
| Ruhland-Schwarzheide
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 623: 22 B-17s bombed the Ruhland oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-11|September 11, 1944}}
| Wanne-Eickel
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] Wanne-Eickel synthetic oil plant bombed. A Wanne-Eickel target was also attacked by the 466th on July 25 and by US Forces in November 1944.[https://books.google.com/books?id=_HkHU5RJJekC&pg=PA166]
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-11|September 11, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Brüx
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 623: 39 B-17s bombed Brüx.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-12|September 12, 1944}}
| Dortmund
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The Hoesch-Benzin GmbH synthetic oil plant at Dortmund was bombed.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-12|September 12, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The synthetic oil plant was bombed.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-12|September 12, 1944}}
| Wanne-Eickel
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The synthetic oil plant was bombed.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-12|September 12, 1944}}
| Hanover (Deurag-Nerag)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 626 dispatched 888 bombers and 662 fighters to 6 oil targets, including 34 B-24s that bombed Misburg oil industry. Misburg bomb damage from the September 11 & 12 attacks was repaired by October 15.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110614072234/http://orbat.com/site/sturmvogel/ussbsnat.html]
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-12|September 12, 1944}}
| Hemmingstedt
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 626: 66 B-24s bombed Hemmingstedt.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-12|September 12, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Böhlen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 626: 35 B-17s bombed a Böhlen oil industry target.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-12|September 12, 1944}}
| Magdeburg/[[Friedrichstadt]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 626: 73 B-17s bombed a Magdeburg/Friedrichstadt oil target.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-12|September 12, 1944}}
| Magdeburg/Rothensee
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 626: 144 B-17s bombed Magdeburg/Rothensee
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-12|September 12, 1944}}
| Ruhland-Schwarzheide
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 626: 59 B-17s bombed the Ruhland oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-12|September 12, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Brüx
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 626: 79 B-17s bombed the oil refinery at Brux.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-13|September 13, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The synthetic oil plant was bombed.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-13|September 13, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 628: 141 B-17s bombed Merseburg.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-13|September 13, 1944}}
| Lützkendorf
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 628: 77 B-17s bombed Lützkendorf.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-13|September 13, 1944}}
| Blechhammer North
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-17s bombed Blechhammer North.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-13|September 13, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Merseburg (Altenburg)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 92 BG bombed the Altenburg oil refineries at "Merseburg".
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-13|September 13, 1944}}
| Ludwigshafen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 628: 74 B-17s bombed the oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-13|September 13, 1944}}
| Odertal
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s bombed the oil refinery at Odertal. An Odertal target was also bombed in bad weather on October 16.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-13|September 13, 1944}}
| [[Stuttgart]]/[[Sindelfingen]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Mission 628: 109 B-17s bombed the oil refinery at Stuttgart/Sindelfingen. Sindelfingen also had a Daimler Benz truck plant,<!--Supplement Part 5--> and an aircraft engine factory at Sindelfingen was bombed on September 10, 1944.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-13|September 13, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Poland.svg|12px]] Dwory
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 464 BG bombed the Auschwitz synthetic oil and rubber plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-14|September 14, 1944}}
| Hemmingstedt
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 629: 6 of 11 B-24s are dispatched on an [[Azon]] mission to the oil refinery at Hemmingstedt; 5 hit the secondary target, ammunition dumps at [[Kropp]]. Both [[Operation Aphrodite]] drones (B-17 30363, "''Ruth L III''", & B-17 39827) targeting the Hemmingstedt oil refinery missed due to weather.<ref name=Baugher>
{{Cite book |last=Baugher |first=Joseph F |author-link=Joe Baugher |title=Encyclopedia of American Aircraft |publisher=att.net}}
* {{Cite book |last=Baugher |first=Joseph F |author-link=Joe Baugher |title=1942 USAAF Serial Numbers (42-39758 to 42-50026) |url=http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1942_2a.html |access-date=2007-04-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404070929/http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1942_2a.html |archive-date=2009-04-04 }}
* {{Cite book |last=Baugher |first=Joseph F |author-link=Joe Baugher |title=1942 USAAF Serial Numbers (tbd to tbd) |url=http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1942_3.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201190037/http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1942_3.html |archive-date=2009-02-01 |access-date=2013-10-23 }}
* {{Cite book |last=Baugher |first=Joseph F |author-link=Joe Baugher |title=1944 USAAF Serial Numbers (tbd to tbd) |url=http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1944_4.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909114946/http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1944_4.html |archive-date=2009-09-09 |access-date=2013-10-23 }}</ref> On this date 5000 planes flew over Germany.<ref name=McCullough/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-17|September 17, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| "''…the enemy always… after the resumption of work, …destroy[s] these [synthetic oil] installations again by air attack''" (Speer).<ref name=Reyher>{{Cite book|last=Reyher |first=Charles R. |title=Memoirs of a B-29 Pilot |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RpGmp5d9tjwC&pg=PA212 |page=212 |access-date=2009-05-12 |isbn=978-1-4357-1508-0 |year=2008 |publisher=Merriam Press }}</ref> On July 20, Speer met with Ambassador Clodius of the Foreign Office regarding the "safeguarding of Rumanian oil."<!--Speer hardcopy p454--> September "chemical plant" production was 5.5% of former capacity.<!--Speer p417-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-17|September 17, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Hungary.svg|12px]] Budapest
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 440+ B-17s and B-24s, with fighter escort, attacked 2 oil refineries and 4 marshalling yards in the Budapest area. The 464 BG bombed the Shell oil refinery at Budapest and the 485 BG bombed the "Magyar Oil Refinery".
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-20|September 20, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of First Slovak Republic 1939-1945.svg|12px]] [[History of Bratislava|Bratislava]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] In Czechoslovakia, the Bratislava "oil district" was bombed. Bratislava was the site of the Apollo refinery.<ref name=Kopp>

{{Cite journal|last=Kopp |first=Carlo |year=2007 |title=The US Air Force Synthetic Fuels Program |url=http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-USAF-SynFuels.html |journal=Air Power Australia |pages=1 |access-date=2009-02-08}}</ref> The Bratislava "industrial area" was bombed on May 16, 1944, the "marshalling yards" were bombed on October 14, 1944, and "the town" of Bratislava was bombed on February 7, 1945.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-21|September 21, 1944}}
| Ludwigshafen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 644: 147 of 154 dispatched B-17s bombed the synthetic oil plant at Ludwigshafen/{{sic|Opau}}.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-23|September 23, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Brüx
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 147 B-17s, escorted by 290 P-38s and P-51s, bombed the Brüx synthetic oil refinery and the marshalling yard at Wels. Wels also had an aircraft facility.{{ref|13.22}}{{Rp|40}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-25|September 25, 1944}}
| Ludwigshafen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 647: B-17s bombed the Ludwigshafen/{{sic|Opau}} "synthetic oil plant".
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-26|September 26, 1944}}
| Frankfurt am Main
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The chemical factory at [[Hochst]], just west of Frankfurt, was bombed. The "cavernous I.G. Farben complex at Frankfurt became Eisenhower's permanent headquarters on June 1, 1945.<ref name=Eisenhower>

{{Cite book|last=Eisenhower |first=David |author-link=David Eisenhower |year=1991 |orig-year=1986 |title=Eisenhower: At War 1943-1945 |location=New York |publisher=Wings Books |isbn=0-517-06501-0 }}</ref>{{Rp|814,820}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-27|September 27, 1944}}
| [[Bottrop]]-Welheim
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The [[Ruhröl]] AG synthetic oil plant in the Welheim suburb of Bottrop was bombed. The 466th also bombed Bottrop on July 20, 1944 and March 16, 1945.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-27|September 27, 1944}}
| Ludwigshafen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 650: 214 B-17s bombed the Ludwigshafen/{{sic|Opau}} oil refinery. A Ludwigshafen target was also bombed on October 13 (Mission 662).
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-27|September 27, 1944}}
| Oberhausen (Sterkrade)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]]
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-28|September 28, 1944}}
| Magdeburg/Rothensee
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 652: 23 B-17s bombed the Magdeburg/Rothensee oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-28|September 28, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 652: 301 of 342 dispatched B-17s bombed the "Merseburg/Leuna oil refinery".
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-30|September 30, 1944}}
| Bottrop
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 1 of 136 bombers attempted to hit the cloud-covered oil plant.{{Specify|Which?|date=May 2009}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-30|September 30, 1944}}
| Oberhausen (Sterkrade)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 24 of 139 bombers attempted to hit the cloud-covered oil plant
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-30/01|September 30/01, 1944}}
| Oberhausen (Sterkrade)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 5 Mosquitoes to Hamburg bombed Sterkrade.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-03|October 3, 1944}}
| Wesseling
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 662: 87 B-17s were dispatched to bomb the Wesseling oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-06|October 6, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The synthetic oil plant was bombed.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-06|October 6, 1944}}
| Oberhausen (Sterkrade)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The 466th bombed Sterkrade.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-06|October 6, 1944}}
| Hamburg-Harburg refineries
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 667: 121 of 406 dispatched B-24s bomb the Harburg/Rhenania oil refinery. Harburg also had a Phoenix tire plant.<!--Supplement Part 7-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-07|October 7, 1944}}
| Blechhammer South
| The [[Tuskegee Airmen]] provided escort.[https://books.google.com/books?id=VyuedRwZre8C&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154]
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-07|October 7, 1944}}
| Kassel/[[Altenbauna]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 669: 88 B-24s bombed the oil refinery at Kassel/Altenbauna and 122 bombed the armored vehicle plant at Kassel/Henschel. Kassel also had two Fieseler plants: Bettenhausen & Waldau.<!--Oil Plan Appendix A-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-07|October 7, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Böhlen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 669: 86 B-17s bombed the oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-07|October 7, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 669: 129 B-17s bombed the oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-07|October 7, 1944}}
| Lützkendorf
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 669: 88 B-17s bombed the oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-07|October 7, 1944}}
| Magdeburg/[[Maschinenfabrik Christian Hagans|Buckau]]<!--The [[Budenberg Gauge Company]] wikipage has Buckau info, also-->
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 669: 62 B-24s bombed the Magdeburg/Buckau oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-07|October 7, 1944}}
| Magdeburg/Rothensee
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 669: 25 B-24s bombed the Magdeburg/Rothensee oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-07|October 7, 1944}}
| Pölitz
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 669: 142 B-17s bombed the "oil refinery".[http://www.daveswarbirds.com/b-17/tail2.htm]
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-07|October 7, 1944}}
| Ruhland-Schwarzheide
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 669: 59 B-17s bombed the "oil refinery".
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-07|October 7, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Lobau)
| The [[741st Missile Squadron|741st Bombardment Squadron]] flew over Vienna to hit an oil refinery, and the Lobau oil refinery was bombed.<ref name=Ambrose/>{{Rp|162}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-07|October 7, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Schwechat)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Schwechat oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-07|October 7, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Winterhafen)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 450 BG bombed the "Winter Hafen [sic] Oil Depot" in Vienna.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-11|October 11, 1944}}
| Blechhammer
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Blechhammer bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-11|October 11, 1944}}
| [[Leverhausen]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] At Leverhausen in the Ruhr, the "largest chemical factory in Europe" was bombed.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a2716085.shtml] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130419222355/http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a2716085.shtml |date=2013-04-19 }}<!--The Darmstadt listing also makes this claim-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-11|October 11, 1944}}
| Wesseling
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 672: 57 B-17s dispatched to bomb the Wesseling synthetic oil plant. The 384 BG bombed the Wesseling/[[Koblenz]] oil facility.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-11 & 13|October 11 & 13, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Floridsdorf)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Floridsdorf oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-12|October 12, 1944}}
| Wanne-Eickel
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The synthetic oil plant was bombed.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-12 & 13|October 12 & 13, 1944}}
| Blechhammer South
| Blechhammer South was bombed on the [https://books.google.com/books?id=VyuedRwZre8C&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154 12th] and by the 301 BG on the 13th.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-14|October 14, 1944}}
| Blechhammer North
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Blechhammer North was bombed in bad weather.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-15|October 15, 1944}}
| [[Düsseldorf]]-Reisholz
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 677: 61 B-24s bombed the Düsseldorf-Reisholz oil facility. The Düsseldorf refinery produced 25,000 tons/year<!--Supplement Part 10 Table 4--> and had a Deutsche Carborundum grinding wheel plant.<!--Supplement Part 6-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-15|October 15, 1944}}
| [[Monheim am Rhein]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 677: 64 B-24s bombed a Monheim/Rhenania oil facility.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-16|October 16, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] [[Linz]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The benzol plant and ordnance depot at Linz was bombed. Linz also had a "steelworks".<!--Speer hardcopy p446-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-16|October 16, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Brüx
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Brüx and an <!--reference does not say the Skoda works was the facility bombed-->[[Škoda Works|armament works]] in [[Plzeň|Pilsen]] were bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-17|October 17, 1944}}
| [[Leverkusen]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 681: Weather prevented 430 B-24s from attacking a [[synthetic rubber]] plant at Leverkusen. Leverkusen was the location of a [[Bayer]] ([[Standard Oil]]/[[IG Farben]]) plant.[https://books.google.com/books?id=pqkqpAr6_s4C&pg=PA213] In 1943, targets at Leverkusen were attacked on August 22/23{{ref|13.19}}{{Rp|161}} (a complete failure)[https://books.google.com/books?id=rVVeO4B985wC&pg=PA51] and by the RAF on [[Battle of Berlin (air)|November 19/20, and December 10/11]]. Up to 1941, there were 5 [[Nazi Germany]] Buna plants that produced Buna N by the [[Lebedev]] process.{{ref|13.80}}{{Rp|15}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-17|October 17, 1944}}
| Blechhammer South
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]]
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-17|October 17, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The industrial area of Vienna was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-18|October 18, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]] CSTC
| Allied policy was changed to bomb oil targets even if reconnaissance was not available.<ref name=Levine/>{{Rp|170}} After Eisenhower notified Marshall on October 23 that the bombing of oil targets was being successful,<ref name=Chandler>

{{Cite journal|editor-last=Chandler |editor-first=Alfred D. Jr. |date=23 October 1944 |title=[Eisenhower message to Marshall] |journal=The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: The War Years |pages=2247–8 |location=Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins |editor2=[[Stephen Ambrose|Ambrose, Stephen E.]]}} (cited by Mets note 20, pp. 260,393,406)</ref> oil targets were retained in the highest priority, and [[Transportation Plan|the German rail system]] was made the second priority.{{note|27.80|27.80}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-19|October 19, 1944}}
| Ludwigshafen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] An oil refinery at "Ludwigshafen & Mannheim" was bombed.<!--http://www.100thbg.com/mainpages/crews/crews5/wilson.htm-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-20|October 20, 1944}}<!--Chronologies-->
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Brüx
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] After having been out of operation for 4 months, the Brüx oil refinery was bombed.<!--301bg.com-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-20|October 20, 1944}}
| [[Regensburg#World War II|Regensburg]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Oil storage at Regensburg was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-23|October 23, 1944}}
| Regensburg
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Regensburg oil storage depot bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-25|October 25, 1944}}
| Hamburg-Harburg refineries
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 688: 455 B-17s dispatched to hit the Harburg (221) and Rhenania oil refineries (214) at Hamburg. 297 B-17s dispatched to hit the primary hit secondaries, Harburg (179) and Rhenania oil refineries (106) at Hamburg.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-25|October 25, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 688: 27 B-24s bombed Gelsenkirchen/Nordstern.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-25|October 25, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 688: 91 B-24s bombed Gelsenkirchen/Buer; 34 hit the secondary at [[Münster]] and 1 hits [[Gronau, North Rhine-Westphalia|Gronau]].
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-26|October 26, 1944}}
| Hamburg-Harburg
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 92 BG bombed the two oil storage complexes in Hamburg.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-30|October 30, 1944}}
| Hamburg-Harburg refineries
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 693: 357 B-24s are dispatched to hit the Harburg oil refinery (72) and Rhenania oil refinery (67) at Hamburg; targets of opportunity are Hamburg (28), Cuxhaven (25), Wesermunde (21), Uetersen (9), Bremen (1).
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-30|October 30, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen/Hamm
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 384 BG bombed the Gelsenkirchen/Hamm synthetic oil plant and marshalling yards.
|-
| {{sort|1944-10-31|October 31, 1944}}
| Bottrop-Welheim
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 101 bombers attacked the Ruhröl AG synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11|November 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| Chemical plant production in October was 10% of former capacity and 28% (1633 tons/day) in November.<!--Speer p417-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-01|November 1, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]]
| After the British Air Staff requested on June 3 that [[RAF Bomber Command]] attack Ruhr oil plants,<ref name=Levine/>{{Rp|146}} and Portal unsuccessfully attempted on July 5, 1944, to "move Harris away from [[Area bombing directive|area bombing]] to join the attacks on oil",{{ref|27.70}} the Air Staff ordered Harris to bomb oil targets.<!--ref name=Davis/> Bombing the European Axis Powers {{Rp|570}}-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-01|November 1, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 384 BG bombed the "Gelsenkirchen/{{sic|Nordsten"}} synthetic oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-01|November 1, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 143 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-02|November 2, 1944}}
| Castrop-Rauxel
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 131 bombers attacked the Union Victor synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-02|November 2, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:COA Luftwaffe eagle gold (looking sinister).svg|20px]] After 459 B-17s dispatched to bomb Leuna were recalled on October 30 due to weather, 700 US bombers escorted by 750 fighters attacked the Leuna synthetic oil plant. Leuna production was interrupted (but returned to 28% of capacity by November 20), and 6 more heavy attacks on Leuna through December were "''largely ineffective because of adverse weather''"<ref name=USSBS/><!--This wikipage lists the following additional attacks through December: Nov 8, 21, 25, 30; Dec 6, 12-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-02|November 2, 1944}}
| Oberhausen (Sterkrade)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 384 BG bombed the Sterkrade (Holten) synthetic oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-03|November 3, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna/Moosbierbaum
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 2 of 3 PFF B-24s of the 450 BG bombed. The 450 BG also bombed Moosbierbaum on November 6; December 8 & 11; January 31; February 1, 7, & 9; and March 1 & 15.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-04|November 4, 1944}}
| Bottrop-Welheim
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 384 BG bombed the Bottrop (Welheim) synthetic oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-04|November 4, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 133 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-04|November 4, 1944}}
| Hamburg-Harburg refineries
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 447 BG bombed the Hamburg/Rhenania oil refinery{{ref|447}} and the 92 BG bombed the Harburg oil complex. The production capacity of the Phoenix tire plant at Harburg was 50,000 tires/month.<!--Summary Part 7-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-04|November 4, 1944}}
| Ludwigshafen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 447 BG bombed the Ludwigshafen oil refinery. Ludwigshafen was also bombed as a diversion during the [[Battle of Berlin (air)|Battle of Berlin on November 18/19, 1943]].
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-04|November 4, 1944}}
| [[Neuenkirchen, Schleswig-Holstein|Neuenkirchen]]
| The 487 BG bombed the Neuenkirchen coking plant and the 452 BG bombed the "Benzalube Stoking Plant" at Neunkirchen on a [[H2X radar|Micro H]] experimental mission.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-04|November 4, 1944}}
| Regensburg
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed Regensburg oil storage.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-04 & 11-15|November 4 & 11-15, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Linz
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 485 BG bombed the benzol oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-04 & 07|November 4 & 7, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Floridsdorf)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-05|November 5, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Floridsdorf)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 450 BG & 485 BG bombed the oil refinery. The 450 BG also bombed the "Floridsdorf Oil Refinery" on October 11, November 17, December 2 (as an alternate on a [[Strasshof an der Nordbahn|Straszhof]] Austria mission), & December 18 (the marshalling yard on March 12).
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-05|November 5, 1944}}
| Ludwigshafen-Oppau
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 487 BG bombed the Ludwigshafen chemical works. A Ludwigshafen target was also bombed by the 466th on January 1, 1945.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-06|November 6, 1944}}
| [[Duisburg]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 65 bombers attacked the Bruckhausen coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-06|November 6, 1944}}
| Oberhausen (Sterkrade)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 134 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-06|November 6, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 738 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-06, 12-17 & 19|November 6, 12-17 & 19, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Moosbierbaum)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed the Moosbierbaum oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-06|November 6, 1944}}
| Bottrop-Welheim
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 384 BG bombed the Bottrop (Welheim) synthetic oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-06|November 6, 1944}}
| Hamburg-Harburg refineries
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 92 BG bombed the Harburg oil complex.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-08|November 8, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 384 BG bombed the Merseburg rubber facility and the 92 BG bombed the Leuna oil complex.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-09|November 9, 1944}}
| Wanne-Eickel
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 277 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-10|November 10, 1944}}
| [[Wiesbaden]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 452 BG bombed the oil plant: "''Although other Aircraft, friendly, [[Combat box|may be under you]], drop your bombs''" (Wing Commander). 9 B-17s also bombed a Wiesbaden target on November 13 (Mission 628).
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-11|November 11, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| A Speer memorandum identified that the oil and margarine plants in the Ruhr were on the verge of shutdown.<!--Speer hardcopy p491--> The Vienna area had no fuel after November 15 (US intelligence report, February 1945).{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|5}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-11|November 11, 1944}}
| Castrop-Rauxel
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 122 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-11|November 11, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 100 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-11|November 11, 1944}}
| Bottrop-Welheim
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 124 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-11|November 11, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna/Kajren
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 450 BG bombed the "Kajren Oil Refinery".
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-11/12 & 15|November 11/12 & 15, 1944}}
| Dortmund
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The Hoesch-Benzin synthetic oil plant was bombed.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-13|November 13, 1944}}
| Blechhammer South
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed the South plant. Only 1 of 3 Pathfinders B-24s of the 450 BG was able to bomb "Blochhammer Synthetic, [[Opole Voivodeship|Oppeln [province]]], Germany", (25 miles from [[Opole]]). Oppeln also had labor camps E17 (a cement factory), E419 and at Schalkendorf; Oderthal had labor camp E162; and Heydebreck had E711A.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090216074840/http://wartimememories.co.uk/pow/stalag8b.html]
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-13, 25, & 30|November 13, 25, & 30, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Linz
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed the Linz benzol plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-17 & 20|November 17 & 20, 1944}}
| Blechhammer South
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 485 BG bombed the synthetic oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-18|November 18, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed a Vienna oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-18/19|November 18/19, 1944}}
| Wanne-Eickel
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 309bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-19|November 19, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna/Schwechat
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 18 B-24s of the 450 BG bombed and hit both the refinery and the "Winterhafen Storage Facility" and 5 bombed the alternate target, the "Győr Marshalling Yard".
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-20|November 20, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 61 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-20|November 20, 1944}}
| Hanover (Deurag-Nerag)
| Bomb damage from the attack was repaired by December 23.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110614072234/http://orbat.com/site/sturmvogel/ussbsnat.html]
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-21|November 21, 1944}}
| [[Koblenz]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 447 BG bombed the oil refinery at Koblenz.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-21|November 21, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 486 BG bombed Merseburg.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-21/22|November 21/22, 1944}}
| Castrop-Rauxel
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 273 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-21/22|November 21/22, 1944}}
| Oberhausen (Sterkrade)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 270 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-23|November 23, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 168 RAF bombers and 134 USAAF bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-25|November 25, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 447 BG bombed the synthetic oil plant at Merseburg.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-26|November 26, 1944}}
| Hanover (Deurag-Nerag)
| The 491 BG earned a DUC for bombing an oil refinery at Misburg.[http://libraryautomation.com/nymas/usaaf7.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090316024723/http://libraryautomation.com/nymas/usaaf7.html |date=2009-03-16 }}
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-29|November 29, 1944}}
| Hanover (Deurag-Nerag)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 384 BG bombed the Misburg oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-30|November 30, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 487 BG bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-30|November 30, 1944}}
| Lützkendorf
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 452 BG bombed the "Lützkendorf, Germany (Merseburg)"{{Specify|Although this source says Merseburg, the 1944-09-11 listing has Merseburg and Lützkendorf separate, so how far apart were they?|date=May 2009}} synthetic oil plant: "Merseburg is infested with enemy fighters" (B-17 "IDA WANN" crewmember of the 452 BG).
|-
| {{sort|1944-11-30|November 30, 1944}}
| Zeitz
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 384 BG bombed the Zeitz oil facility.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-02|December 2, 1944}}
| Dortmund
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 83 bombers attacked the Zeche Hansa coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-06|December 6, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 741: 446 B-17s bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-11|December 11, 1944}}
| Oberhausen ([[Osterfeld]])
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The Osterfeld coking plant was bombed.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-12|December 12, 1944}}
| Blechhammer South
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed the South plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-06|December 6, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 384 BG bombed the Leuna oil refinery.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mission # 236 |url=https://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/One384thMission.php?MissionKey=249 |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=384thbombgroup.com}}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-09|December 9, 1944}}
| Regensburg oil refinery
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] A Regensburg oil refinery was bombed. Regensburg had four small oil refineries for a total production of 80,000 tons/year.<!--Supplement Part 10 Table 4.-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-11|December 11, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Moosbierbaum)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-12|December 12, 1944}}
| Blechhammer South
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 6 PFF B-24s of the 450 BG bombed the primary and alternate targets, as well as a target of opportunity.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-12|December 12, 1944}}
| Leipzig/Leuna
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 748: 337 B-17s bombed the synthetic oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-12|December 12, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Pardubice region
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 485 BG bombed the {{sic|"Norravska"}} oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-15|December 15, 1944}}
| <sup>[''Expand'']</sup><!--split this mission into separate table rows-->
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] German oil storage was bombed at Heimbach, Wollseifen, Harperscheid, Schonau, Ruthen, and Dorsel.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-16|December 16, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Linz
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The benzol plant was bombed. The 450 BG had been unable to bomb Linz on December 3 and instead bombed the Villach Marshalling Yard (also bombed the "North Main Marshalling Yard" in Linz on January 8, February 25, & March 31; "South Main" on January 8).
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-16|December 16, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Brüx
| The lead [[741st Missile Squadron|741st BS]] pilot bypassed the Brüx refinery target: "''I'm not sure to this day that he wasn't right in avoiding that almost suicidal bomb run.''" (741st pilot [[George McGovern]])<ref name=Ambrose>

{{Cite book|last=Ambrose |first=Stephen E. |author-link=Stephen Ambrose |year=2001 |title=The Wild Blue: The Men and boys who flew the B-24s over Germany |url=https://archive.org/details/wildblue00ambr_2 |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/wildblue00ambr_2/page/180 180] |location=New York |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |isbn=0-7432-0339-9}}</ref>{{Rp|182}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-16|December 16, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| [[Unternehmen Bodenplatte]] for "''capturing Allied fuel stocks''" began with insufficient fuel.<ref name=Mets>

{{Cite book|last=Mets |first=David R. |year=1997|edition=paperback|orig-year=1988 |title=Master of Airpower: General Carl A. Spaatz |pages=265, 273, 287}}</ref>{{Rp|265}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-17|December 17, 1944}}
| Odertal oil refinery
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24 42-51430 ("Tulsaamerican") ditched off the [[Vis (island)|Vis Island]] coast.<ref name=Baugher/><!--1942-3-->
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-17|December 17, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Pardubice region
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The [[Moravská Třebová|Moravská]]-Ostrava oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-18|December 18, 1944}}
| Blechhammer North & South
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]]
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-18|December 18, 1944}}
| Odertal
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Odertal oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-18|December 18, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Floridsdorf)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]]
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-18|December 18, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Pardubice region
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Moravská-Ostrava oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-18|December 18, 1944}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-13|September 13, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Poland.svg|12px]] Dwory
| US bombers attacked the "Monowitz synthetic plant".<ref name=Aroneanu>{{Cite book|last=Aroneanu |first=Eugène |author2=Whissen, Thomas |year=1996 |title=Inside the Concentration Camps |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hNrqjiyIOhYC&pg=PA621 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |page=148,621 |isbn=978-0-275-95446-8 |access-date=2009-04-07}}</ref>{{Rp|621}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-19|December 19, 1944}}
| Blechhammer North & South
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]]
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-19|December 19, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Pardubice region
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Moravská-Ostrava oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-20|December 20, 1944}}
| Regensburg oil refinery
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Regensburg oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-21/22|December 21/22, 1944}}
| Pölitz
| 209 aircraft bombed the Pölitz synthetic-oil refinery. Parts of the plant were damaged and the power-station chimneys collapsed.{{Specify|Was this the 8AF?|date=May 2009}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-22|December 22, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| "''The most notable'' [advances] ''are the [[German Type XXI submarine|new [Type XXI] submarines]] and '''[synthetic] fuels''', [[V-2|rockets]], and [[Messerschmitt Me 262|jet propulsion]] generally.…It is…production rather than invention, particularly of synthetic fuels, that is going to be Germany's main difficulty.''" ([[R. V. Jones]] report to [[Winston Churchill]])<ref name=Jones/>{{Rp|464}}
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-25|December 25, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Brüx
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 253 B-17s and B-24s bombed the Brüx synthetic oil plant and main marshalling yards at [[Wels]].
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-18|December 18, 1944}}
| Odertal
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Odertal oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-09-13|September 13, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Poland.svg|12px]] Dwory
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Auschwitz oil {{sic|refinery}} was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-27|December 27, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Vösendorf)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Vosendorf oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-28|December 28, 1944}}
| Regensburg
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Regensburg oil storage and freight yard was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-28|December 28, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Kolín
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-28|December 28, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] [[Kralupy nad Vltavou|Kralupy]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-28|December 28, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Pardubice region
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Pardubice oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-28|December 28, 1944}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] [[Roudnice]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Roudnice nad Labem oil storage and sidings were bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-29/30|December 29/30, 1944}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 346 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-31|December 31, 1944}}
| Hamburg-Harburg refineries
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 772: In Hamburg, 96 B-17s bombed the {{sic |[[Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg|Wilhemsburg]]}} refinery, 71 bombed the Grassbruk refinery, 68 bombed other oil industry targets, and 72 bombed other industrial area targets.
|-
| {{sort|1944-12-31|December 31, 1944}}
| Hanover (Deurag-Nerag)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 772: 96 B-17s bombed the Hamburg oil refinery (bomb damage was repaired by February 14).[https://web.archive.org/web/20110614072234/http://orbat.com/site/sturmvogel/ussbsnat.html]
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-01|January 1, 1945}}
| Hanover/Dollbergen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] B-17s bombed the Dollbergen oil facility as a target of opportunity.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-01|January 1, 1945}}
| [[Dortmund]] coking plant
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The 466th bombed the "Dortmund Hoesch Coking Plant".
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-01/02|January 1/2, 1945}}
| Dortmund ([[Minster Stein]])
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] [http://www.questiaschool.com/read/90208816?title=1945]
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-01|January 1, 1945}}
| [[Ehmen]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 487 BG bombed the Ehmen storage depot.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-01|January 1, 1945}}
| Kassel
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 384 BG bombed Derben (primary) and Kassel (secondary) targets: a vehicle workshop and an oil storage depot.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-03|January 3, 1945}}
| [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]]
| "''…the [[wikt:chimera|chimera]] of one air operation that will end the war…does not exist. …much of the Russian advance is due to the immobility conferred on the German ground forces by our attacks on oil.''" (Spaatz letter to [[Giles (surname)|Barney Giles]])<ref name=Mets/>{{Rp|273}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-03|January 3, 1945}} [http://www.questiaschool.com/read/90208816?title=1945]
| Castrop-Rauxel
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]]
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-03|January 3, 1945}} [http://www.questiaschool.com/read/90208816?title=1945]
| Dortmund (Hansa)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The [[Dortmund#History|Hansa]] [[coker unit|coking plant]] was bombed in Dortmund, which refined oils into higher grade fuels. A Gelsenkirchener Bergwerke oil plant was in Dortmund.{{ref|13.50}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-07|January 7, 1945}}
| {{Specify|date=May 2009}}
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 785: A Pathfinder force bombed an oil storage depot in W Germany.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-08|January 8, 1945}}
| Pölitz
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] Bombing "put the works out of action for the remainder of the war".<ref name=Taylor>

{{Cite book|last=Taylor |first=Frederick |author-link=Frederick Taylor (historian) |year=2005 |orig-year=2004 - HarperCollins edition |title=Dresden, Tuesday, February 13, 1945 |url=https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_b8e7 |url-access=registration |format=pdf—Internet Archive |location=London |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=0-7475-7084-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_b8e7/page/207 207]}}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1945-01|January 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| Hungarian petroleum deposits and the nearby refineries "are indispensable" after bombing of the German coal hydrogenation plants (Hitler).<ref name=Bauer>

{{Cite book |last=Bauer |first=Eddy (original text) |orig-year=1972 |year=1966 |title=Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia |publisher=H. S. Stuttman Inc. |isbn=0-87475-520-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/illustratedworld11baue/page/1478 1478 (Vol 11), 1999 (Vol 15)] |url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedworld11baue/page/1478 }}</ref>{{Rp|1999}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-13/14|January 13/14, 1945}}
| Pölitz
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] [http://www.questiaschool.com/read/90208816?title=1945]
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-14|January 14, 1945}}
| Kassel/[[Derben]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 792: 186 B-17s bombed an oil target at Derben.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-14|January 14, 1945}}
| Ehmen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 792: 89 B-24s bombed an oil target at Ehmen.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-14|January 14, 1945}}
| [[Salzgitter|Hallendorf]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 792: 145 B-24s bombed an oil target at Hallendorf.<ref>https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/mission/792 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-14|January 14, 1945}}
| Hemmingstedt
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 792: 91 B-24s bombed an oil target at Hemmingstedt.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-14|January 14, 1945}}
| Magdeburg/Rothensee
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 792: 90 B-17s bombed oil targets at Magdeburg.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-15|January 15, 1945}}
| Bochum
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The Robert Muser coking plant was bombed.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-15|January 15, 1945}}
| [[Recklinghausen]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] Oil production at the Recklinghausen/Forstezung [http://www.questiaschool.com/read/90208816?title=1945] coking plant<ref name=Historisches/> was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-16|January 16, 1945}}
| [[Dessau]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] At Dessau, the 447 BG bombed the "oil plant" and the 487 BG bombed the "marshalling yards".
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-16|January 16, 1945}}
| Hamburg-Harburg
| The USAAF bombed oil production at Harburg.[http://www.questiaschool.com/read/90208816?title=1945]
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-16|January 16, 1945}}
| Magdeburg/Rothensee
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 796: 61 B-17s hit the Rothensee synthetic oil plant at Magdeburg. Magdeburg targets were bombed by the RAF on [[Battle of Berlin (air)|January 14/15 and, in the first major raid on Magdeburg, on January 21/22]].<!--Battle of Berlin (air)--> Magdeburg may also have been bombed on February 22.[http://www.usaaf-noseart.co.uk/misslist-31238.htm]
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-16|January 16, 1945}}
| Ruhland-Schwarzheide
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 796: 67 B-17s bombed the Ruhland oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-16|January 16, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Brüx
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The 106th bombed Brüx.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-16/17|January 16/17, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Brüx
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] [http://www.questiaschool.com/read/90208816?title=1945] This attack and an earlier U.S. PFF attack on December 25 immobilized "the giant synthetic plant at BRUX".<ref name=Twining/> By February 6, Brüx had experienced the worst damage since bombing started and production was not expected to resume for 2 months (with no prospect for resuming crude refining).{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|s2}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-16/17|January 16/17, 1945}}
| Wanne-Eickel
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The coking plant was bombed.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-17|January 17, 1945}}
| Hamburg-Harburg
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 798: 158 B-17s are dispatched to hit the Rhenania (40) and Albrecht (34) oil refineries at Hamburg and the U-boat base at Hamburg (73). 78 of 84 B-24s hit the Rhenania oil refinery at Harburg.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-20|January 20, 1945}}
| Regensburg
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed Regensburg oil storage.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-20|January 20, 1945}}
| Oberhausen (Sterkrade)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 801: 36 of 309 B-17s bombed the Holten oil plant at Sterkrade.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-21|January 21, 1945}}
| [[Aschaffenburg]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 803: 66 B-17s bombed the oil plant at Aschaffenburg.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-21|January 21, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Lobau)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-17s bombed the Lobau oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-21|January 21, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Schwechat)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-17s bombed the Schwechat oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-21|January 21, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Italy.svg|12px]] Fiume
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 43 P-38s bombed an oil refinery at Fiume, Italy.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-22|January 22, 1945}}
| Gelsenkirchen
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The 466th bombed Gelsenkirchen.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-22|January 22, 1945}}
| Oberhausen (Sterkrade)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 805: 167 B-17s were dispatched for visual attacks on the Holten synthetic oil plant at Sterkrade.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-22/23|January 22/23, 1945}}
| [[Duisburg]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] A heavy attack on the Bruckhausen<ref name=Historisches/> benzol plant at Duisburg-Hamborn inflicted severe damage.{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|s4}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-23|January 23, 1945}}
| Gelsenchirchen (Consolidation)
| The "CONSOLIDATED L/VT plant" at Gelsenkirchen was rendered inactive by an area attack.{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|s4}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-28|January 28, 1945}}
| Dortmund
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 809: 58 B-24s bombed an oil target at Gneisenau.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-28|January 28, 1945}}
| Dortmund
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 809: 115 B-24s bombed the [[Kaiserstuhl (coking plant)|Kaiserstuhl]] and Gneisenau coking plants at Dortmund.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-29|January 29, 1945}}
| Kassel
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 811: 93 B-17s bombed the Henschel oil plant at Kassel using [[H2X radar]].
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-31 & 02-03|January 31 & February 3, 1945}}
| Dortmund benzol plant
| The "HANSA Benzol Plant" was bombed.{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|s1}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-31 & 02-01|January 31 & February 1, 1945}}
| Duisburg
| The "BRUCKHAUSEN Benzol Plant" was bombed.{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|s1}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-01-31|January 31, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Moosbierbaum)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] In a blind attack,{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|s1,3}} 670+ B-24s and B-17s bombed the Moosbierbaum oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1945-01|January 1945}}
| Salzbergen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The {{sic|Wintershell}} "straight crude oil refinery with a small cracking plant" was bombed.{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|2}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-01|February 1, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Moosbierbaum)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] A visual attack{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|s1,3}} by 300+ B-17s and B-24s bombed the oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-02/03|February 2/3, 1945}}
| Wanne-Eickel
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 323 aircraft attacked the Wanne-Eickel oil refinery<ref name=Ludmer>

{{Cite journal|last=Ludmer |first=Henry |date=November 1947 |title=Oil in Germany |url=https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/3612/1/V47N06_259.pdf |journal=The Ohio Journal of Science |number=6 |volume=47 |pages=259–263 |access-date=2009-02-11}}</ref>([https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175801/http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/en/konzern/geschichte_chronik_k1937.html Krupp Treibstoffwerke).] Most bombs hit open ground around the Shamrock 3/4 coal mine.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-03/04|February 3/4, 1945}}<ref name=Historisches/>
| Bottrop
| The "PROSPER Benzol Plant" was bombed.{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|s1}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-03/04|February 3/4, 1945}}<ref name=Historisches/>
| Dortmund
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The Hansa coking plant was bombed. A later RAF Dortmund raid on March 12 was the heaviest World War II raid on a city in Europe (1108 aircraft).<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-03|February 3, 1945}}
| Magdeburg/Rothensee
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 817: 116 B-24s bombed the Rothensee oil plant (246 bombed the marshalling yard).
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-04|February 4, 1945}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The 466th bombed the "NORDSTERN Benzol Plant".{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|s1}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-04|February 4, 1945}}
| Oberhausen ([[Osterfeld]])
| The [[Oberhausen]] "OSTERFELD Benzol Plant" was bombed.{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|s1}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-05|February 5, 1945}}
| Regensburg
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 730+ B-17s and B-24s bombed oil storage at Regensburg.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-04/05|February 4/5, 1945}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 96 Halifaxes, 12 Lancasters, and 12 Mosquitoes attacked the Nordstern synthetic-oil plant. Most of the bombs fell south of the target.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-07|February 7, 1945}}
| Leipzig/Böhlen
| The 447 BG bombed the Böhlen "oil refinery".
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-07|February 7, 1945}}
| Wanne-Eickel
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 74 Lancasters bombed in the wintry conditions which had scattered the force.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-07|February 7, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Kagran
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-07|February 7, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Korneuburg
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-07|February 7, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Floridsdorf)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-07|February 7, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Lobau)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed the Lobau oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-07|February 7, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Moosbierbaum)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-07|February 7, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Schwechat)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Schwechat oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-07|February 7, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Italy.svg|12px]] [[Pula|Pola]]
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 485 BG bombed the oil storage at Pola.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-07/08|February 7/8, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Italy.svg|12px]] Mestre
| [[File:Twelfth Air Force - Emblem.png|12px]] Fighters and fighter-bombers supporting [[U.S. Fifth Army]] forces in the [[Serchio]] river valley destroyed an oil dump north of Mestre.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-08/09|February 8/9, 1945}}
| Pölitz
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 477 aircraft in 2 waves caused severe damage. The Pölitz plant was captured April 26, 1945.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-08/09|February 8/9, 1945}}
| Wanne-Eickel
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 200 Halifaxes, 20 Mosquitoes, and 8 Lancasters conducted scattered bombing with only light damage to the oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-08/09|February 8/9, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Moosbierbaum)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 49 aircraft bombed the oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-09|February 9, 1945}}
| Lützkendorf
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 824: 233 B-17s bombed the "oil plant at Lützkendorf between Leipzig and Halle".
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-09|February 9, 1945}}
| Magdeburg/Rothensee
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 824: 10 B-24s bombed the oil plant and 268 using H2X hit the secondary target, the Magdeburg marshalling yard.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-09|February 9, 1945}}
| Dülmen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 824: 107 of 152 B-17s using Micro H to bomb "an oil storage depot at Dülmen"<ref name=Taylor/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-10|February 10, 1945}}
| Dülmen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 825: 140 B-17s hit the secondary target, the Dülmen oil storage depot, using Micro H.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-11|February 11, 1945}}
| Dülmen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 827: 124 of 127 B-24s attack the Dülmen oil depot using Micro H.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-13|February 13, 1945}}
| Leipzig/Böhlen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 384 BG bombed the synthetic oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-13/14|February 13/14, 1945}}
| Hanover (Deurag-Nerag)
| Bomb damaged was repaired by February 26.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110614072234/http://orbat.com/site/sturmvogel/ussbsnat.html]
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-13/14|February 13/14, 1945}}
| Leipzig/Böhlen
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] A diversion raid for the [[Bombing of Dresden in World War II|Bombing of Dresden]], 360 [[Avro Lancaster|Lancasters]] and [[Handley Page Halifax|Halifaxes]] bombed the Braunkohle-Benzin synthetic-oil plant at Böhlen {{convert|60|mi|km}} from Dresden.<ref name=De-Bruhl/>{{Rp|205}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-13/14|February 13/14, 1945}}
| <sup>[''Expand'']</sup><!--FIRST DETERMINE IF [[Magdeburg]] (71), [[Bonn]] (16), Misburg near [[Hanover]] (8), and Dortmund WERE OIL TARGETS, then split this mission into separate table rows.   WAS ONE OF THE LOCATIONS THAT OF THE NUREMBERG transformer plant bombed on the same night?-->
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] As diversion raids for the [[Bombing of Dresden in World War II|Bombing of Dresden]], [[de Havilland Mosquito]]es bombed Magdeburg (71), [[Bonn]] (16), Misburg near [[Hanover]] (8), and Dortmund (6).<ref name=De-Bruhl>{{Cite book|last=De Bruhl |first=Marshall |year=2006 |title=Firestorm: Allied Airpower and the Destruction of Dresden |publisher=Random House |page=205}}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-13/14|February 13/14, 1945}}
| [[Nuremberg]]/[[Bombing of Würzburg in World War II|Würzburg]] area
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] Bombing of the [[Siemens-Schuckert]] electrical transformer plant in Nuremberg (the largest<ref name=Gurney/>{{Rp|232}} in the world), ignited the oil tanks.<ref name=King>

{{Cite book|last=King|first=Benjamin|title=Impact: The History of Germany's V-Weapons in World War II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9WZ_z55WC1MC&pg=PA112 |isbn=978-0-306-81292-7|date=2003-07-15|publisher=Hachette Books }} [https://books.google.com/books?id=RpGmp5d9tjwC&pg=PA212 (Reyher cites Impact Vol III No 7)]</ref> Bombing destroyed the transformer plant {{circa|February 1945}}.[https://books.google.com/books?id=NVZLw_RCwsEC&pg=PA355]
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-14|February 14, 1945}}
| Dülmen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 830: 35 aircraft bombed the Dülmen oil depot.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-14|February 14, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Floridsdorf)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]]
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-14|February 14, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Lobau)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Lobau oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-14|February 14, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Moosbierbaum)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 500+ B-24s, B-17s and P-38s bombed the Moosbierbaum oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-14|February 14, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Schwechat)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Schwechat oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-15|February 15, 1945}}
| [[Cottbus]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 447 BG The 447 BG bombed the Cottbus "oil refinery". Cottbus was also bombed on March 17.[https://books.google.com/books?id=uAlz3oIZHM4C&pg=PA116]
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-14/15|February 14/15, 1945}}
| Leipzig/Rositz
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] [[Operation Thunderclap]]: 224 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitoes bombed the oil refinery in Rositz near [[Leipzig]], causing damage to the southern part of the plant.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-15|February 15, 1945}}
| Leipzig/Böhlen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 832
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-15|February 15, 1945}}
| Magdeburg
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 832 bombed the Magdeburg oil facility(ies).{{Specify|The USAAF Chronology doesn't say if it is was Rothensee and/or one of the other Magdeburg oil facilities|date=February 2009}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-15|February 15, 1945}}
| Ruhland-Schwarzheide
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 832
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-15|February 15, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Korneuburg
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]]
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-16|February 16, 1945}}
| Dortmund
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 833: 78 B-17s bombed the {{sic|Harpenerweg}} synthetic oil plant at Bochum-Langendeer, 112 bombed the Kaiserstuhl coking plant,<ref name=Historisches/> and the 92 BG bombed the "Hoesch Benzol coking plant". The small Dortmund/Harpenerweg "refinery" had begun partial production {{circa|February 6}}.{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|s3}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-16|February 16, 1945}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 833: 104 B-17s bombed Nordstern.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-16|February 16, 1945}}
| Dortmund (Minster stein)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 833: 112 B-17s bombed the oil refinery at {{sic|Minsterstein.}} By February 2, 1945, "Minster stein" had been conducting "at least partial production".{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|s4}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-16|February 16, 1945}}
| Salzbergen
| 46 B-24s bombed the Salzbergen oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-17|February 17, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Linz
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed the Linz benzol plant. A Linz target was also bombed by the 464 BG on January 20 and April 25, 1945.<ref name=Baugher/><!--1944_4.html, 49314 & 49402 hit by flak (THE 464 BG webpage needs checked to confirm Baugher-->
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-19|February 19, 1945}}
| Alm
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 835: 37 B-17s bombed the Alm oil refinery.<ref name="Historisches" />
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-19|February 19, 1945}}
| Bochum
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 835: 99 B-17s bombed the Carolinenglück synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-19|February 19, 1945}}
| Dortmund
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 835: 74 B-17s bombed the Hoesch-Benzin GmbH synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-19|February 19, 1945}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Alma Pluto)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 835: 37 B-17s bombed the Alma Pluto coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-19|February 19, 1945}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 835: 36 B-17s bombed the Scholven synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-20|February 20, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Schwechat)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Schwechat oil refinery bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-20|February 20, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Lobau)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Lobau refinery and Floridsdorf railyard were bombed. "The attack was outstandingly successful, resulting in severe damage to the ''boiler house'', virtual destruction of the ''distillation unit pump house'', a probable hit on the ''fractionating tower'', and serious damage to ''tankage and rail sidings.''<ref name=Twining>

{{Cite web|last=Twining |first=Nathan (Foreword) |author-link=Nathan Farragut Twining |date=February 1945 |title=Attack on Vienna: 20 February 1945 |url=http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/ow/23270617 |work=Vienna (Lobau) Oil Refinery |publisher=Fifteenth Air Force (available at [[U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center|USAHEC]]) |access-date=2009-03-11|quote=UNCLASSIFIED [from SECRET] … on 9 Feb 88}}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-20/21|February 20/21, 1945}}
| [[Düsseldorf-Reisholz]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 173 aircraft attacked the Rhenania Ossag refinery at [[Düsseldorf-Reisholz]], halting all oil production.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-20/21|February 20/21, 1945}}
| Monheim am Rhein
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 128 aircraft bombed the Rhenania Ossag refinery at Monheim.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-21|February 21, 1945}}
| [[Worms, Germany|Worms]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The 466th bombed the "Worms Oil Plant".
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-21|February 21, 1945}}
| {{Specify|date=February 2009}}
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] A German oil storage depot was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-19|February 19, 1945}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Alma Pluto)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 85 Lancasters bombed the Alma Pluto coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-22|February 22, 1945}}
| Oberhausen (Osterfeld)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 82 Lancasters accurately bombed oil refineries at Osterfeld during [[Operation Clarion]].
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-24|February 24, 1945}}
| Hamburg-Harburg refineries
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 845: At Hamburg, 278 B-17s bombed the [[Albrecht]] oil refinery and 70 bombed the [[Harburg, Hamburg|Harburg]] oil refineries. 383 B-17s are sent to hit the Deschimag U-boat yards at Bremen (200) and the Bremen W rail bridge (134). The 92 BG bombed the Albrecht synthetic oil complex.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-24|February 24, 1945}}
| Kamen
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 340 aircraft bombed a "synthetic-oil plant in [[Bergkamen]], just north of Kamen" using Oboe and H2S markers.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-25|February 25, 1945}}
| [[Munich]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 847: 174 B-17s bombed the oil storage tanks and marshalling yard at Munich. Munich also had a Metzler tire plant.<!--Supplement Part 7-->
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-25|February 25, 1945}}
| Kamen
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 153 [[No. 3 Group RAF]] Lancasters carried out a [[G-H (navigation)|G-H]] attack on the synthetic-oil refinery at Kamen.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-25|February 25, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Linz
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 485 BG bombed the benzol plant. The Third Army entered Linz and Salzburg on May 4<ref name=Eisenhower/>{{Rp|790}} after the Fifteenth Air Force had dropped 8,962 tons of explosives on Linz.<!--ref name=Davis/> Bombing the European Axis Powers {{Rp|541}}-->
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-25|February 25, 1945}}
| [[Neuberg, Hesse|Neuberg]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 487 BG bombed the Neuberg underground oil depot. Neuberg also had aircraft service/park facilities,{{ref|13.22}}{{Rp|40}} and Neuburg am Donau (Zell) had an [[Messerschmitt Me 262|Me 262]] production facility.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-26|February 26, 1945}}
| Dortmund benzol plant
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 149 Lancasters bombed the "Hoesch-Benzin GmbH<ref name=Historisches/> benzol-oil plant" using [[Gee (navigation)|G-H]].
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-27/28|February 27/28, 1945}}
| [[Wilhelmshaven World War II bombings|Wilhelmshaven]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 851: 23 B-24s bombed Wilhelmshaven oil storage by PFF.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-28|February 28, 1945}}
| Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 156 Lancasters bombed Nordstern using G-H.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02-28|February 28, 1945}}
| Frankfurt oil depot
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] Frankfurt/Main oil storage tanks were bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-02|February 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| Total POL production was down 27% from the production prior to the January raids.{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|s1}} Stocks of aviation fuel were down to 6,000 tonnes and in February, the Luftwaffe received only 400 tonnes:{{citation needed|date=March 2013}} "anyone using [German] fuel for purposes other than the immediate conduct of operation will be considered a saboteur and court-martialed without mercy" (military order).<ref name=Miller/>{{Rp|461}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-01|March 1, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Moosbierbaum)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 22 P-38s bombed the Moosbierbaum refinery and [[Tulln (district)|Tulln]] marshalling yard. Vienna also had aircraft service/park facilities at Tulln and [[Aspern]].{{ref|13.22}}{{Rp|40}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-01|March 1, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Hungary.svg|12px]] Budapest & [[Nagykanizsa]]
| After the Fifteenth Air Force had dropped 8,370 tons of explosives on Budapest targets,<!--ref name=Davis/> Bombing the European Axis Powers {{Rp|541}}--> Budapest was captured February 13, 1945<ref name=Turner/>{{Rp|1808}} (the Red Army was within 10 miles on November 3, 1944).<ref name=Shugg/> On March 1, Germany launched the last major German offensive of World War II ([[Operation Frühlingserwachen]]) to retake Budapest and the Nagykanizsa oil fields south of [[Lake Balaton]].
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-02|March 2, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| Speer ordered that Nitrogen plants were to be repaired before the hydrogenation plants.<!--Speer hardcopy p516-->
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-02|March 2, 1945}}
| Chemnitz
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 859: 255 B-17s bombed Chemnitz.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-02|March 2, 1945}}
| Dresden
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 859: The 447 BG bombed the oil refinery at Dresden.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-02|March 2, 1945}}
| Magdeburg/Rothensee
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 859: 24 B-17s bombed the Rothensee oil plant
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-02|March 2, 1945}}
| Leipzig/Böhlen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 859: 96 B-17s bombed the oil plant and gun batteries at Böhlen.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-02|March 2, 1945}}
| Leipzig/Rositz (Altenburg)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 859: The 384 BG bombed the oil plant at Rositz near [[Altenburg]]. An Altenburg target was also bombed on March 17.[https://books.google.com/books?id=uAlz3oIZHM4C&pg=PA116]{{Specify|Which "Altenburg" facility was bombed on March 17? This wikiarticle cites sources which identify three locations for "Altenburg" plants: Hamburg, Rositz, & Merseburg|date=May 2009}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-02|March 2, 1945}}
| Ruhland-Schwarzheide
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 859: 24 B-17s bombed the Ruhland oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-03|March 3, 1945}}
| [[Bombing of Braunschweig in World War II|Brunswick]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 447 BG bombed the chemical plant at [[Brunswick (city)|Brunswick]]. Brunswick also had a Büssing-Nag truck plant.<!--Supplement Part 5-->
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-01 & 04|March 1 & 4, 1945}}
| Kamen
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The chemical works at Bergkamen were bombed.<ref name=Historisches/> The 466th bombed Kamen on March 3.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-04|March 4, 1945}}
| Wanne-Eickel
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 128 aircraft bombed.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-05|March 5, 1945}}
| Gelsenchirchen (Consolidation)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 170 aircraft bombed the Consolidation coking plant at Gelsenkirchen.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-06|March 6, 1945}}
| Salzbergen
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The Wintershall oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-07|March 7, 1945}}
| Castrop-Rauxel
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 487 BG bombed the oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-07|March 7, 1945}}
| Dortmund
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] At Dortmund, 24 aircraft bombed the Hörde Refuge Association coking plant and 62 bombed the Harpenerweg coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/> The 466th also bombed Dortmund on March 12.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-07|March 7, 1945}}
| [[Calendar date|Dates]]<ref name=Historisches/>
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 447 BG bombed the "[[Datteln]]–[[Emscher]] [[Lippe]]" coking plant.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-07/08|March 7/8, 1945}}
| Hamburg-Harburg refineries
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] Bomber Command attacked the oil refinery at Harburg.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-07/08|March 7/8, 1945}}
| Hemmingstedt
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 256 Halifaxes and 25 Lancasters of Nos 4, 6 and 8 Groups attempted to attack the [[Deutsche Erdöl-Aktiengesellschaft]] oil refinery at Hemmingstedt, near [[Heide]], with little success.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-08|March 8, 1945}}
| Bochum
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 99 aircraft bombed the Robert Muser coking plant and 63 bombed the Bruchstraße coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>{{Clarify|Was this plant in the "Bergstraße (district)" instead of Bochum?|date=October 2008}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-08|March 8, 1945}}
| Bottrop (Mathias Stinnes)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 37 aircraft bombed the Mathias Stinnes coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-08|March 8, 1945}}
| Dortmund
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 110 aircraft bombed the Gneisenau coking plant. On March 10, 509 aircraft bombed the Verschiebebahnhöfe at Dortmund.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-08|March 8, 1945}}
| [[Bombing of Essen in World War II|Essen]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] In Essen, 114 aircraft bombed the Emil coking plant, and 109 bombed the marshalling yards.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-08|March 8, 1945}}
| Gelsenchirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 75 aircraft bombed Scholven.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-08|March 8, 1945}}
| Hüls
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 111 aircraft bombed the Auguste Victoria coking plant at [[Marl]]-Hüls.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-10|March 10, 1945}}
| Gelsenchirchen (Scholven/Buer)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 155 aircraft bombed Scholven.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-11|March 11, 1945}}
| Bremen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 384 BG bombed the Bremen oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-11|March 11, 1945}}
| Hamburg-Harburg
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 486 BG bombed a Hamburg oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-11/12|March 11/12, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg|12px]] [[Zagreb]]<ref name=McKillop/>
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] The 596 BS attacked a synthetic ammunition filling plant at Zagreb.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090306073207/http://www.b26.com/page/pdf/596_Squadron_history_1945.pdf] The [[oil campaign of World War II (Targets)|Bergius process for synthetic oil production was also used for synthesizing ammonia]] for explosives. The small petrol refinery between [[Zagreb]] and [[Vrapče, Zagreb|Vrapče]] was named Sveta Klava, then Astra.{{ref|13.50}}{{Rp|5}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-12|March 12, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Floridsdorf)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] B-24s and B-17s bombed the Floridsdorf oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-11|March 11, 1945}}
| Nienhagen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 486 BG bombed a Nienhagen oil facility.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-13|March 13, 1945}}
| Lützkendorf
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The 106th bombed Lützkendorf.[http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=382806&rel_no=1]
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-13/14|March 13/14, 1945}}
| Gelsenchirchen (Consolidation)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 80 aircraft bombed the Consolidation coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-13/14|March 13/14, 1945}}
| [[Herne, Germany|Herne]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 82 aircraft bombed the Erin coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-14|March 14, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna
| Prior to a raid targeting a Vienna oil refinery, the briefing officer told crews to avoid the [[St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna|St. Stephen's Cathedral]], the [[Vienna State Opera]], the [[Schönbrunn Palace]] and other historic buildings and schools. Due to weather, the alternate (Wiener Neustadt marshaling yards) was bombed.<ref name=Ambrose/>{{Rp|228–9}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-14|March 14, 1945}}
| Dates
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 50 aircraft bombed the Emscher-Lippe coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-14|March 14, 1945}}
| [[Hattingen]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 51 aircraft bombed the Henrichshütte coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-14|March 14, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Hungary.svg|12px]] Szőny
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Szőny oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-14|March 14, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Hungary.svg|12px]] Almásfüzitő
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Almásfüzitő oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-15|March 15, 1945}}
| Bottrop-Welheim
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 121 aircraft bombed the Ruhröl AG synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-15|March 15, 1945}}
| Castrop-Rauxel
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 119 aircraft bombed the Union Victor synthetic oil plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-15|March 15, 1945}}
| Hanover (Deurag-Nerag)
| The bombing caused an "indefinite shutdown".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://orbat.com/site/sturmvogel/ussbsnat.html |title=The How and Why Air Attacks Crippled the German Oil-Chemical Industry |url-status=dead |access-date=2013-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521072812/http://orbat.com/site/sturmvogel/ussbsnat.html |archive-date=May 21, 2012 }}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-15|March 15, 1945}}
| Ruhland-Schwarzheide
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] In the 15AF's deepest penetration into Germany, 109 B-17s bombed the oil refinery at Ruhland.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-15|March 15, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Floridsdorf)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Floridsdorf` oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-15|March 15, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Moosbierbaum)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Moosbierbaum oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-15|March 15, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Schwechat)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Schwechat oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-15|March 15, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Kolín
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 103 B-17s bombed the oil refinery as an alternate target.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-16|March 16, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Floridsdorf)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Floridsdorf oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-16|March 16, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Korneuburg
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Korneuburg oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-16|March 16, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Moosbierbaum)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Moosbierbaum oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-16|March 16, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Schwechat)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Schwechat oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-17|March 17, 1945}}
| Dortmund
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 77 aircraft bombed the Gneisenau coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-17|March 17, 1945}}
| Hüls
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 90 aircraft bombed the chemical works at Marl-Hüls.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-17|March 17, 1945}}
| Leipzig/Böhlen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 892: 152 B-17s bombed the oil refinery at Böhlen.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-17|March 17, 1945}}
| Leipzig/[[Rötha]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 892: 127 B-17s bombed the oil refinery and power station at Mölbis (the 92 BG bombed the Mölbis benzol plant). A Mölbis target had been bombed on September 12 (Mission 626), and the 303 BG bombed the Mölbis thermal electric power station in Rötha on May 28.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sirinet.net/~lgarris/emiller/military.html |title=Ed Miller's Military Page |access-date=2013-10-23 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192907/http://www.sirinet.net/~lgarris/emiller/military.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-17|March 17, 1945}}
| Ludwigshafen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 892: 138 B-17s bombed their secondary target, the [[Ludwigshafen|Bittefeld]] oil refinery. After the Eighth Air Force had dropped 17,796 tons of explosives on Ludwigshafen-Mannheim,<!--ref name=Davis/> Bombing the European Axis Powers {{Rp|541}}--> Ludwigshafen was captured on March 21.<ref name=Bauer/>{{Rp|2065}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-17|March 17, 1945}}
| Ruhland-Schwarzheide
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 892: 214 B-17s bombed the Ruhland oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-18|March 18, 1945}}
| Bochum
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 75 aircraft bombed the Harpenweg coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
|1945-03-18
| Bochum
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 22 Lancasters bombed oil plants at Hattingen and [[Langendreer]] in Bochum.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-18|March 18, 1945}}
| Hattingen
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 78 aircraft bombed the Henrichshütte coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-19|March 19, 1945}}
| Gelsenchirchen (Consolidation)
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 79 aircraft bombed the Consolidation coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-19|March 19, 1945}}
| Ruhland
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 486 BG bombed a Ruhland oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-20|March 20, 1945}}
| Hamburg-Harburg
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 898: The 92 BG bombed a Harburg oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-20|March 20, 1945}}
| Hemmingstedt
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 898: 114 B-24s attacked the oil refinery at Hemmingstedt.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-20|March 20, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Kagran
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-20|March 20, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Korneuburg
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-20/21|March 20/21, 1945}}
| Hemmingstedt
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 166 Lancasters attacked the Hemmingstedt oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-21|March 21, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 3 oil refineries and a goods depot were bombed at Vienna.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-21|March 21, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna (Floridsdorf)
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The 32 BS bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-21/22|March 21/22, 1945}}
| Bochum
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 143 aircraft bombed the Harpenweg coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-22|March 22, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Kralupy
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Kralupy oil refinery was bombed.<ref name=Ambrose/>{{Rp|234}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-22|March 22, 1945}}
| Ruhland-Schwarzheide
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Ruhland oil refinery was bombed (some bombers dispatched to Ruhland bombed the [[Lauta]] aluminum works to the North).
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-22|March 22, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Two Vienna oil refineries were bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-23|March 23, 1945}}
| Ruhland-Schwarzheide
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] The Ruhland oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-23|March 23, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Austria.svg|12px]] Vienna
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] Vienna oil refinery(ies) bombed. After the Fifteenth Air Force had dropped 30,122 tons of explosives on Vienna targets,<!--ref name=Davis/> Bombing the European Axis Powers {{Rp|541}}-->
the Soviet [[Vienna Offensive]] began on April 2, encircled Vienna on April 7, and the garrison surrendered on April 13.<ref name=Shugg>

{{Cite book|last=Shugg |first=Roger W. |author2=DeWeerd, H. A. |author3=Lieutenant Colonel  |date=January 1947|edition=Second |orig-year=January, 1946—First Edition |title=World War II: A Concise History |location=Washington |publisher=Infantry Journal Press |page=350}}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-24|March 24, 1945}}
| Bochum
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 95 aircraft bombed the Harpenweg coking plant.<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-25|March 25, 1945}}
| [[Bücken]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 913: 1,009 bombers and 341 fighters are dispatched to hit 7{{Specify|The same-day listings for Bucken, Ehmen, Hitzacker, Erbach, and Zeitz account for 5 of the 7 by the 8AF (Neuenheerse was bombed by the 9AF the same day)|date=February 2009}} oil plants and a tank factory. 57 B-24s bombed the Bücken oil depot.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-25|March 25, 1945}}
| Ehmen
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 913: 59 B-24s bombed the Ehmen oil depot
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-25|March 25, 1945}}
| Nuremberg/Würzburg area
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] {{sic|Erbach}}, Germany, oil storage depot bombed. Erlbach was south of Ebrach between Würzburg and Nuremberg.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-25|March 25, 1945}}
| [[Hitzacker]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 913: 127 B-24s bombed the Hitzacker oil depot.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-25|March 25, 1945}}
| [[Bad Driburg#Neuenheerse|Neuenheerse]]
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] Neuenheerse, Germany, oil storage depot bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-25|March 25, 1945}}
| Zeitz
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 915: 185 B-17s are sent to hit the Zeitz synthetic oil plant.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-27|March 27, 1945}}
| Bremen-[[Farge]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 95 Lancasters of No 5 Group successfully attacked an oil-storage depot at Farge.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-27|March 27, 1945}}
| Hamm
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] 150 aircraft bombed the Heessen coking plant in the last strategic bombing in the [[Ruhr Area]].<ref name=Historisches/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-28|March 28, 1945}}
| [[Hanover–Berlin high-speed railway|Dedenhausen]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 486 BG bombed a Dedenhausen oil facility near Hanover.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-28|March 28, 1945}}
| Nuremberg/Würzburg area
| The 596 BS bombed the [[Ebrach]] oil depot. Ebrach was north of Erlbach between Würzburg and Nuremberg.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-30|March 30, 1945}}
| [[Baar-Ebenhausen|Ebenhausen]]
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] The Ebenhausen oil depot in Germany was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-30|March 30, 1945}}
| Hamburg-Harburg refineries
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 169 bombers attacked an oil depot at Hamburg, and the 487 BG bombed a Hamburg oil refinery.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-31|March 31, 1945}}
| [[Bad Berka]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 920: 29 B-17s bombed the secondary target, the Bad Berka oil plant.{{Specify|was this a refinery, a synthetic plant, or perhaps a mis-identification of the oil storage?|date=April 2009}} The 100 BG attacked the Bad Berka oil storage. Bad Berka underground work plant used [[forced labor]].<ref name=Aroneanu/>{{Rp|148}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-31|March 31, 1945}}
| Nuremberg/Würzburg area
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] B-17s bombed the {{sic|Erbach}} oil depot.<ref name=Carter>

{{Cite book|last=Carter |first=Kit C. |author2=Mueller, Robert |title=The Army Air Forces in World War II |url= https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RjzLqxg6KlAC |publisher=Center for Air Force History |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RjzLqxg6KlAC/page/n657 661] |access-date=2009-01-10 |isbn=978-1-4289-1543-5}}</ref> Erlbach was south of Ebrach between Würzburg and Nuremberg.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-31|March 31, 1945}}
| [[Erfurt]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 920: 20 B-17s bombed the Erfurt oil depot.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RjzLqxg6KlAC&pg=PT661 |author=Robert Mueller |isbn=9781428915435 |publisher=DIANE Publishing |title=Combat Chronology: 1941-1945 |access-date=2013-10-23}}</ref> Erfurt had also been bombed on February 9 (by the 384 BG) and on March 17.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uAlz3oIZHM4C&pg=PA116 |author=Bill Yenne |isbn=9780760325223 |publisher=Zenith Imprint |year=2006 |title=B-17 at War |access-date=2013-10-23}}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-31|March 31, 1945}}
| [[Gotha (town)|Gotha]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 920: 20 B-17s bombed the Gotha oil plant{{Specify|was this a refinery or synthetic plant?|date=April 2009}} as secondary target (Gotha also had an aircraft production center.)<ref name=Arnold>{{Cite book|last=Arnold |first=Henry H.—Foreword |author-link=Hap Arnold |date=June 1944 |orig-year=May 1944 |title=AAF: The Official Guide to the Army Air Forces |location=New York |publisher=Pocket Books |page=337 }}</ref> The [[Ohrdruf forced labor camp]] near Gotha was the 1st found by the Allies, and Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley inspected the Ohrdruf Nord work camp on April 12, 1945. After an April 13/14 overnight visit with his father, [[John Eisenhower]] visited Buchenwald on April 14.<ref name=Eisenhower/>{{Rp|564k,761,764,770}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-31|March 31, 1945}}
| [[Gdynia#Gdynia during World War II (1939–1945)|Marienburg-Gdynia]]<!--ref name=Davis, p. 465-->
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] B-17s bombed the Marienburg oil depot.<ref name=Carter/> [[Stalag XX-B]] was at Marienburg.
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-31|March 31, 1945}}
| Nuremberg/Würzburg area
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] B-17s bombed the Würzburg oil depot.<ref name=Carter/>
|-
| {{sort|1945-03-31|March 31, 1945}}
| Zeitz
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 920: 229 B-17s bombed the synthetic oil refinery at Zeitz using H2X radar
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-04|April 4, 1945}}
| Nuremberg/Würzburg area
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] The Ebrach oil depot was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-07|April 7, 1945}}
| Buchen{{Clarify|Perhaps the target was Buchenwald?|date=April 2009}}
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] 36 B-17s bombed the Buchen oil depot.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-07|April 7, 1945}}
| Hitzacker
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] The 384 BG bombed the Hitzacker underground storage.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-07/8|April 7/8, 1945}}
| Leipzig/Rötha
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The bombing of the benzol plant at Molbis, near Leipzig, ceased all production at the plant. Halle and Leipzig were captured by the [[VII Corps (United States)|VII Corps]] on April 14.<ref name=Bauer/>{{Rp|2133}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-08|April 8, 1945}}
| [[Durben]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 920: 31 B-17s bombed the Durben oil depot.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-08|April 8, 1945}}
| Lützkendorf
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] The 106th bombed Lützkendorf. The [[US First Army]] was in Leipzig on April 18, 1945.<ref name=Turner/>{{Rp|1897}}
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-08|April 8, 1945}}
| [[Munchenbernsdorf]]
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] The Munchenbernsdorf oil storage depot was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-08|April 8, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Italy.svg|12px]] [[Po Valley]]
| [[File:Twelfth Air Force - Emblem.png|12px]] Oilfields in the central Po Valley were bombed. On April 20, US ground forces encountered "''half-hearted resistance ''[in capturing the]'' flat ground of the Po Valley with its excellent road network''".<ref>{{Cite book |editor-last=Goodyear |editor-first=Harry J. |year=1946 |title=History of the 3rd Battalion, 338th Regiment, 85th Infantry Division: World War II |url=http://144.99.215.53:8331/V/A66NN7U7AFC8K9PQ7FVX42LV6HDGMGQ3LYGPUQI3GICB5JGEBL-07462?func=quick-3&doc_number=010807240 |publisher=Campus Publishing Company |pages=124–5 |access-date=2009-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110529061457/http://144.99.215.53:8331/V/A66NN7U7AFC8K9PQ7FVX42LV6HDGMGQ3LYGPUQI3GICB5JGEBL-07462?func=quick-3&doc_number=010807240 |archive-date=2011-05-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-08|April 8, 1945}}
| [[Nienhagen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|Nienhagen]] oil refinery
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] The Nienhagen oil refinery was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-09|April 9, 1945}}
| Bad Berka
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] The 596 BS bombed the Bad Berka oil storage.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-09|April 9, 1945}}
| [[Dedenhausen]]
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] The Dedenhausen oil target was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-09|April 9, 1945}}
| Neuberg
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 935: 89 B-17s bombed the underground oil depot.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-11|April 11, 1945}}
| [[Freiham]]
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 941: 300 B-17s bombed the Freiham oil depot.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-11|April 11, 1945}}
| Regensburg
| [[File:Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png|12px]] Mission 941: 80 B-24s bombed the Regensburg oil depot and 31 bombed the munitions depot.The 401 BG bombed a Regensburg target on April 16. The Fifteenth Air Force dropped 5,815 tons of explosives on Regensburg.<!--ref name=Davis/> Bombing the European Axis Powers {{Rp|541}}-->
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-12|April 12, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]]
| Strategic Bombing Directive No. 4 ended the strategic air war in Europe. On April 16, Spaatz notified Doolittle and Twining: "''The advances of our ground forces have brought to a close the strategic air war waged by the United States Strategic Air Forces and the Royal Air Force Bomber Command.''".<!--ref name=Davis/> Bombing the European Axis Powers {{Rp|554}}-->
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-18|April 18, 1945}}
| [[Neuburg an der Donau|Neuburg]]
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] Oil storage at Neuburg an der Donau was bombed.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-18|April 18, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg|12px]] Roudnice
| [[File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|12px]] 115 B-17s bombed the Roudnice nad Labem oil storage and marshalling yards.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-19|April 19, 1945}}
| [[Annaburg]]
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] Oil storage was bombed at Annaburg.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-19|April 19, 1945}}
| [[Deggendorf]]
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] Oil storage was bombed at Deggendorf.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-24|April 24, 1945}}
| [[Schrobenhausen]]
| [[File:Patch9thusaaf.png|12px]] The oil depot was bombed at Schrobenhausen.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04-25/26|April 25/26, 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Norway.svg|12px]] [[Tønsberg]]
| [[File:RAF roundel.svg|12px]] During the RAF's [[RAF Bomber Command#Strategic bombing 1942–1945|"last major strategic raid"]], 107 Lancasters destroyed the small "Vallo-Taneberg"<!--Supplement Part 10 Table 4--> oil refinery at Tønsberg.
|-
| {{sort|1945-04|April 1945}}
| [[File:Flag of Germany 1933.svg|20px]]
| Germany's oil production was 5% that of the previous year:<ref name=Ambrose/>{{Rp|249}}
Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr 1945<br />
tbd - tbd - tbd - {{circa|7,000 tons/month}}<br />
By the end of the war, instead of using "''200 liters of J-2 fuel taxiing for 5 minutes,''" [[Messerschmitt Me 262|Me 262 jet fighters]] were towed by oxen or ''[[Kettenkrad]]'' track-cycles to save fuel. "''General Carl Spaatz had been insistent—and correct. The enemy would fight for oil, and the enemy would lose his fighters, his crews, and his fuel''" (Herman S. Wolk, USAF historian, June 1974)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wolk |first=Herman S. |date=June 1974 |title=Prelude to D-Day: The Bomber Offensive |page=65 }} (cited by Mets note 140, pp. 216,387)</ref>
|-
| {{sort|1945-05-10|May 10, 1945}}
| [[File:US flag 48 stars.svg|20px]]
| [[Harry S. Truman]] signed [[Morgenthau Plan#JCS 1067|Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive 1067]], which prohibited German production of oil until superseded in July 1947.
|-
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==References==
* {{Cite web|title=Campaign Diary |url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/diary.html |work=Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary |publisher=UK Crown |access-date=2009-03-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070706011932/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jul44.html |archive-date=July 6, 2007 }}
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20081207002424/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/diary_france.html May-June 1940 (Battle of France)], [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070706011932/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/diary_bob.html June-October (Battle of Britain) 1940], [https://web.archive.org/web/20081207002424/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/diary_france.html July-December 1940]
** '''1941''': [https://web.archive.org/web/20121011155524/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/diary1941_1.html January-April], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090303223416/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/diary1941_2.html May-August], [https://web.archive.org/web/20121014104430/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/diary1941_7.html September- December]
** '''1942''': [https://web.archive.org/web/20081207003320/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jan42.html January], [https://web.archive.org/web/20070607044832/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/feb42.html February], [https://web.archive.org/web/20070611025139/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/mar42.html March], [https://web.archive.org/web/20120929070535/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/apr42.html April], [https://web.archive.org/web/20120929070535/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/may42.html May], [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070706011932/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jun42.html June], [https://web.archive.org/web/20070611032112/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jul42.html July], [https://web.archive.org/web/20070611030306/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/aug42.html August], [https://web.archive.org/web/20070610105237/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/sep42.html September], [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070706011932/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/oct42.html October], [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070706011932/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/nov42.html November], [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070706011932/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/dec42.html December]
** '''1943''': [https://web.archive.org/web/20060221074735/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jan43.html January], [https://web.archive.org/web/20060221074327/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/feb43.html February], [https://web.http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070706011932/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/may43.html March], [https://web.archive.org/web/20070607040716/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/apr43.html April], [https://web.archive.org/web/20060221074220/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/may43.html May], [https://web.archive.org/web/20080817034129/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jun43.html June], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090504112357/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jul43.html July], [https://web.archive.org/web/20121011115432/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/aug43.html August], [https://web.archive.org/web/20040929002241/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/sep43.html September], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090303235000/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/oct43.html October], [https://web.archive.org/web/20120926110426/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/nov43.html November], [https://web.http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070706011932/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/dec43.html December]
** '''1944''': [https://web.http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070706011932/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jan44.html January], [https://web.http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070706011932/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/feb44.html February], [https://web.http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070706011932/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/mar44.html March], [https://web.archive.org/web/20070611030447/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/apr44.html April], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130409100024/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/may44.html May], [https://web.archive.org/web/20070611023020/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jun44.html June], ([https://web.archive.org/web/20121012042243/http://www.raf.mod.uk/dday/timeline_june6.html D-Day]), [https://web.archive.org/web/20070611031257/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jul44.html July], [https://web.archive.org/web/20070607035123/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/aug44.html August], [https://web.archive.org/web/20080314224553/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/sep44.html September], [https://web.archive.org/web/20070611024544/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/oct44.html October], [https://web.archive.org/web/20071029143730/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/nov44.html November], [https://web.archive.org/web/20110606110620/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/dec44.html December]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20070611024304/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jan45.html January 1945], [https://web.archive.org/web/20070607042346/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/feb45.html February 1945], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090416193431/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/mar45.html March 1945], [https://web.archive.org/web/20120728094923/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/apr45.html April 1945]
* {{Cite web |last=McKillop |first=Jack |url=http://www.usaaf.net/chron/index.htm |title=Combat Chronology of the USAAF |access-date=2007-05-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610115615/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/index.htm |archive-date=2007-06-10 }}
** '''1942''': [https://web.archive.org/web/20090204143319/http://usaaf.net/chron/42/jan42.htm January], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211103911/http://usaaf.net/chron/42/feb42.htm February], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211103117/http://usaaf.net/chron/42/mar42.htm March], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211103421/http://usaaf.net/chron/42/apr42.htm April], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211103916/http://usaaf.net/chron/42/may42.htm May], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211102250/http://usaaf.net/chron/42/jun42.htm June], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211103056/http://usaaf.net/chron/42/jul42.htm July], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211102639/http://usaaf.net/chron/42/aug42.htm August], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211102337/http://usaaf.net/chron/42/sep42.htm September], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211101801/http://usaaf.net/chron/42/oct42.htm October], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211102714/http://usaaf.net/chron/42/nov42.htm November], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211102644/http://usaaf.net/chron/42/dec42.htm December]
** '''1943''': [https://web.archive.org/web/20120531191539/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/43/jan43.htm January], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211101850/http://usaaf.net/chron/43/feb43.htm February], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211103950/http://usaaf.net/chron/43/mar43.htm March],  [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211101806/http://usaaf.net/chron/43/apr43.htm April], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228133354/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/43/may43.htm May], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228133323/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/43/jun43.htm June], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211103201/http://usaaf.net/chron/43/jul43.htm July], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090212182006/http://usaaf.net/chron/43/aug43.htm August], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211103429/http://usaaf.net/chron/43/sep43.htm September], [https://web.archive.org/web/20120531191604/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/43/oct43.htm October], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211101956/http://usaaf.net/chron/43/nov43.htm November], [https://web.archive.org/web/20061007025927/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/43/dec43.htm December]
** '''1944''': [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211104025/http://usaaf.net/chron/44/jan44.htm January], [https://web.archive.org/web/20141227223115/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/44/feb44.htm February], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211104458/http://usaaf.net/chron/44/mar44.htm March], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090216134921/http://usaaf.net/chron/44/apr44.htm April], [https://web.archive.org/web/20120606084013/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/44/may44.htm May], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090216134948/http://usaaf.net/chron/44/jun44.htm June], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130527104023/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/44/jul44.htm July], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211103512/http://usaaf.net/chron/44/aug44.htm August], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090213065727/http://usaaf.net/chron/44/sep44.htm September], [https://web.archive.org/web/20100307201338/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/44/oct44.htm October], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211104529/http://usaaf.net/chron/44/nov44.htm November], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211102831/http://usaaf.net/chron/44/dec44.htm December]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090216135327/http://usaaf.net/chron/45/jan45.htm January 1945], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130929142523/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/45/feb45.htm February 1945], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130602071111/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/45/mar45.htm March 1945], [https://web.archive.org/web/20100307201343/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/45/apr45.htm April 1945], [https://web.archive.org/web/20100307201214/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/45/may45.htm May 1945], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211104534/http://usaaf.net/chron/45/jun45.htm June 1945], [https://web.archive.org/web/20100307201203/http://www.usaaf.net/chron/45/jul45.htm July 1945], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211103609/http://usaaf.net/chron/45/aug45.htm August 1945], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211104645/http://usaaf.net/chron/45/sep45.htm September 1945]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090515011722/http://www.92ndma.org/missions.htm 92 BG missions]
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.100thbg.com/mainpages/crews/crews1/jones_da1.htm |title=2nd Lt. Donald A. Jones |publisher=100thBG.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106212031/http://www.100thbg.com/mainpages/crews/crews1/jones_da1.htm |archive-date=2009-01-06 }}
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* [http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/331.pdf 303rdBG.com], '''397 BG'''
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.b26.com/page/pdf/596_Squadron_history_1945.pdf |title=596 BS history 1945 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306073207/http://www.b26.com/page/pdf/596_Squadron_history_1945.pdf |archive-date=2009-03-06 }}
* [http://w384thBombGroup.com 384th bombardment group]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.398th.org/History/Articles/Remembrances/Ostrom_ShadyLady.html |title=The Saga of Shady Lady |publisher=398th.org }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071031130337/http://www.401bg.com/history/aircraft.asp?acid=38758 401st bombardment group] 401BG.com,
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090226224213/http://users.cybercity.dk/~nmb5433/missions1.html cybercity],
* {{Cite journal |url=http://www.447bg.com/43-37797.htm |title=43-37797 - American Beauty |publisher=447th Bomb Group Association }}
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=Zfn9qDog2b0C&pg=PA22 Cottontails]
* [http://www.ccsu.edu/cppsr/VHP/homepage/veterans/Taylor_John.htm 452 BG]
* [http://www.461st.org/Missions/June1944.htm 461st.org],
* [http://www.zplace2b.com/464/sortie.htm zplace2b]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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* [http://www.486th.org/Mssn/Prologue.htm 486th.org]
* [http://www.487thbg.org/missions.shtml 487thBG.com]

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