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Why Can’t America Build Enough Weapons?
On the morning of August 1, 1943, a strike force of 178 B-24 four-engine bombers lifted off from airfields in North Africa to attack the German-controlled oil refineries in Ploiesti, Romania, Nazi Germany’s main source of petroleum. The target was defended …