This synthetic oil plant at Bottrop, west of Gelsenkirchen, Germany, produced 100

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This synthetic oil plant at Bottrop, west of Gelsenkirchen, Germany, produced 100

This synthetic oil plant at Bottrop, west of Gelsenkirchen, Germany, produced 100, 000 barrels of oil per month for the German war machine before it was wrecked from the air. The US 8th Air Force heavy bombers attacked the installation through cloud on November 4th, 6th and 11th while RAF Bomber Command pounded it on the 31st October. Almost every major building was either destroyed or severely damaged, knocking the plant out of production. November 1944

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