Oil campaign chronology of World War II

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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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— events regarding Nazi Germany petroleum, lubrication, and/or oil supplies
- events regarding notable Luftwaffe defensive efforts against Allied attack of petroleum, lubrication, and/or oil supply targets
and/or — events regarding Allied planning
— RAF, Eighth Air Force, and other roundels indicate units (most listings are from the RAF chronology[1] and the USAAF chronology)[2] "100 BG" — listings that include the unit abbreviation (BG is Bombardment Group) are from the corresponding mission history for the unit.[3]

Chronology
Date Target/Topic Event
May 15/16, 1940 Oil and other installations in Ruhr In response to the bombing of Rotterdam, Western Air Plan 5[4]: 4  was activated. This was the first large-scale strategic bombing during World War II[5]: 53  and the first attack on the German interior - it inflicted little damage.[6]: 9, 171  Just 24 of 96 bombers dispatched to Ruhr Area power stations and refineries found the target area,[7] setting several oil plants on fire.[8]
May 16/17, 1940 Oil installations in Ruhr 6 Handley Page Hampden and 6 Vickers Wellington bombers attacked Ruhr oil targets.
May 17/18, 1940 Hamburg-Harburg[6]: 149  48 Hampdens attacked Hamburg oil installations.
May 17/18, 1940 Bremen 24 Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bombers attacked Bremen oil installations.[note 1]
May 18/19, 1940 "Oil refineries" 24 Wellington, 24 Whitleys, and 12 Hampdens attacked oil refineries and railways in Germany and troops in Belgium.[9]
May 22/23, 1940 Leipzig/Leuna[10]: 198  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.[11][verification needed]
May 27/28, 1940 Bremen 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.
May 27/28, 1940 Hamburg-Harburg refineries Hampdens attacked oil refineries near Hamburg.
May 30/31, 1940 Bremen The Bremen oil refinery was bombed.
May 30/31, 1940 Hamburg-Harburg refineries Hamburg oil refineries were bombed.
June 2/3, 1940 oil targets 24 Whitleys and 6 Hampdens bombed "oil and communication targets in Germany".[9]
June 4, 1940 Frankfurt oil depot The Frankfurt oil depot was attacked with 400 bombs.[12]: 150  [note 2]
June 17/18, 1940 Leipzig/Leuna Leuna bombed.[13]: 98 
September 4, 1940 Chiefs of Staff The Future Strategy report predicted "Germany's oil stocks might be exhausted--and Germany's situation disastrous--by June 1941."[4]: 4 
September 14/15, 1940 Antwerp 43 Wellingtons bombed an oil depot near Antwerp. A Redeventza refinery was at Antwerp.[14]
January 9/10, 1941 Gelsenkirchen Less than half of 135 aircraft dispatched bombed the Gelsenkirchen synthetic oil plants.
February 10/11, 1941 Hanover 222 aircraft (the highest number to one target) conducted the first "oil plant directive" mission on 17 oil production targets.
February 14/15, 1941 Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern) 9 Wellingtons bombed
February 28, 1941 To enable bombing of "Roumanian oil installations", a British Expeditionary Force established a 'Balkan front'.[13]: 160 
June 22, 1941 The German invasion of the USSR included the goal to capture the Baku oilfields. At the time, total German oil imports from the USSR were 912,000 tons,[clarification needed] with German stockpiles[citation needed] at 1,350,000 tons. By October 1941, Nazi Germany oil product stocks were down to 905,000 tons.
June 1941 Ploiești The Soviet Union's VVS bombed Ploiești.[4]: 11 
July 14, 1941 Ploiești 6 VVS aircraft bombed Ploiești.[5]: 11 
1942 Harnes The Kuhlman Fischer-Tropsch plant at Harnes was shut down briefly due to bomb damage.[6][15]
April 1942 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".[7]: 4 
May 30, 1942 Cologne The Kolnische Gummifaden Fabrik tire and tube factory at Deutz on the east bank of the Rhine was entirely destroyed.[16]: 215 
1942 Ministry of Economic Warfare The "Bombers' Baedeker" identified oil, communications, and ball bearings were "bottleneck" German industries.[17]
June 12, 1942 Ploiești (Astra Română) The Halverson project raid from Egypt was the first US mission against a European target — 10 aircraft bombed the Astra Română oil refinery.
June 25/26, 1942 Bremen 1,067 aircraft attacking Bremen targets used 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.
July 20, 1942 Hitler authorized Operation Edelweiss to capture the Soviet oil fields of Baku. On July 10, Hermann Göring had met with experts on how to repair the Russian Maykop oil facilities (Germany reassembled an oil facility at Kherson in the Ukraine, also).<[citation needed] The Soviets set the Maikop oilfields on fire on August 9, the town was evacuated on the 16th,[12]: 737  and Nazi Germany began occupation in August.[18]
September 1942 Bucharest The VVS bombed the oil installations.
September 1942 Ploiești The Soviet Union's VVS bombed the oil installations.
October 1942 The US "Enemy Oil Committee" was established as a counterpart to the British "Technical Sub-Committee on Axis Oil" (Hartley Committee).[8]
November 1942 Hartley Committee The Axis Oil Position in Europe, November 1942 estimated that Romanian oil fields contribute 33% of Axis supplies.[19]: 41 
December 3, 1942 Joint Intelligence Subcommittee The German Strategy in 1943 predicted Nazi Germany will have increased domestic oil supplies in mid-1943.[19]: 42 
December 21, 1942 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).[13]: 388 
January 16, 1943 C/AS Management Control[9]: 5  After Hap Arnold created the United States Army Air Forces Committee for Operations Analysis (COA) on December 9, 1942,[10] 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.[4]: 6 
January 19, 1943 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).[19]: 41, 256  Nazi Germany destroyed the Maikop facilities prior to withdrawing.[20]
January 21, 1943 Combined Chiefs of Staff C.C.S. 166/1/D identified oil facilities as the 4th bombing priority.[19]
March 8, 1943 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%.[11]: 6 
April 10, 1943 "We must, therefore, apply [bombardment] to those specially selected and vital targets which will give the greatest return." (Arnold to Carl Spaatz)[21][12]: vii 
April 20/21, 1943 Pölitz 339 bombers attacked the Stettin railyards, the Pölitz oil refinery, and Swinemünde.[22] 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 subcamp of Sachsenhausen near Pölitz provided forced labor.
May 19, 1943 CCS The CBO "Eaker" plan was approved and confirmed oil targets as the 4th primary objective ("contingent upon attacks against Ploesti").[13]: 17 
May 13/14; June 12/13, 1943 Bochum benzene plant RAF roundel Battle of the Ruhr bombings of the Bochum coal-producing center northwest of Essen damaged its "extensive coke, gas, benzol, and iron, and steel plants."[14]: 4, 74–5, 81  In 1943, the 466th bombed Bochum targets on March 29, May 13, October 9, and November 4.[23] 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 Bremen, 150 miles away.[24]
May 16, 1943 Ploiești The Advisory Council submitted the Air Attack on Ploesti ("SOAPSUDS") bombardment plan, which the 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.<[15]: 24, 26, 31, 36, 67–8 
June 22, 1943 Hüls In the first large-scale daylight raid on the Ruhr, 170 of 235 B-17s bombed the Hüls oil refinery[clarification needed] and synthetic rubber plant[16]: 75 /aircraft tire factories:[25] "those swine have destroyed Hüls!" (Göring).[citation needed] A Hüls target was also bombed on December 28/29, 1941.
June 23/24, 1943 La Spezia 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".[26]
June 25/26, 1943 Bari Wellingtons of the Northwest African Strategic Air Force bombed the "Bari, Italy oil refinery".
June 25/26, 1943 Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern) At the end of the first phase of the Combined Bomber Offensive,[17]: 15, 80  during the Battle of the Ruhr 473 aircraft unsuccessfully bombed Gelsenkirchen due to cloud and failure of Oboe equipment.[27]
July 9/10, 1943 Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern) In one of the last large raids of the Battle of the Ruhr, 418 aircraft unsuccessfully - due to misplaced marking - attacked Gelsenkirchen.[28]
August 1, 1943 Brazi Operation Tidal Wave bombed the Creditul Minier refinery in Brazi.[29]: II-161 
August 1, 1943 Câmpina Operation Tidal Wave bombed the Steaua Română refinery in Câmpina.
August 1, 1943 Ploiești Operation Tidal Wave bombed the Astra Română, Columbia Aquila, and Unirea Orion refineries at Ploiești (four Medals of Honor were awarded for the US Bomber pilots and four Order of Bravery to the Bulgarian fighter pilots to shoot them down)
August 1, 1943 Ploiești Operation Tidal Wave bombed the Astra Română and 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".[18]
August 12, 1943 Bochum Diverting from the Gelsenkirchen target, B-17 "Ain't It Gruesome" bombed Bochum. An unexploded 20 mm shell struck the boot of Captain Clark Gable, a gunnery observer on his third operational flight[30] Gable's footage is in the FMPU's propaganda film Combat America.
August 12, 1943 Recklinghausen 183 B-17's are dispatched to synthetic oil installations at Bochum, Gelsenkirchen and Recklinghausen
August 12, 1943 Gelsenkirchen The 384 BG bombed the Gelsenkirchen "oil refinery".
September 12, 1943 Just over a week following the secret signing of the Italian armistice, Göring identified that Mussolini had hoarded 65,000 tons of aviation fuel, including 38,000 barrels in the La Spezia tunnels.[citation needed] The Cisa Pass tunnel connected La Spezia with Parma, and US soldiers were executed for planned sabotage of the Cinque Terre tunnel between La Spezia and Genoa.
November 5, 1943 Gelsenkirchen Mission 121: 229 of 323 B-17s bombed 495 tons[19]: 164  on the marshalling yard and oil plants.
November 1943 Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer) 96 of 328 B-17s bombed 238 tons 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.[20] A Gelsenkirchen target was also attacked on November 19,[21]: 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.
November 26, 1943 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).[22]
December 30, 1943 Ludwigshafen–Oppau The 351 BG bombed the explosives factory [31] at Oppau[citation needed]. Prior to May 1944, explosives production was 99,000 metric tons/month, but in December 1944, the amount had dropped to 20,500; and after October 1944, German explosives were 20% rock salt. The Mannheim-Ludwigshafen area was bombed in late 1943 to prevent recovery from previous bomb damage.[23]: 169  The Mannheim aircraft plant was bombed on October 19, 1944,[24] and Mannheim had a Daimler Benz truck plant.
January 7, 1944 Ludwigshafen 1,000 tons of bombs dropped on Ludwigshafen,[32]: 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."[25] Ludwigshafen targets were subsequently bombed by the 8AF on March 2, March 31, and May 27.
January 12, 1944 Fiume The 317 BS bombed the oil refinery.[33] Circa January 1944, the Enemy Oil Committee identified that Italian refining had ceased in August 1943.[26] Italian refineries were at Fiume (Ramsa plant), La Spezia, Leghorn, Trieste (Aquila & SIAF plants), and Venice.[14]
February 3, 1944 Budapest, Sofia, Bucharest, and Vienna were identified as second priority objectives for 15AF "area attack".[27]
March 5, 1944 "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) [which] currently account for over 90 per cent of total Axis refinery and synthetic oil output" (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).[26]
March 25, 1944[verification needed] SHAEF Although Spaatz's claimed "We believe attacks on transportation will not force the German fighters into action. We believe they will defend oil to their last fighter plane'',[34][28] Dwight D. Eisenhower decided that "apart from the attack on the GAF,[German air force] the 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".^27.60 Control of all air operations was transferred to Eisenhower on April 14 at noon.[29]: 5 
April 5, 1944 Ploiești 230 bombers bombed Ploiești for the 1st time in 8 months,[35]: 118  beginning the "1944 Ploesti Campaign" (April 5-August 19: 5,674 sorties, 13,559 bomb tons, 254 aircraft lost).[36]: 239  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 [30] Archived 2009-03-16 at the Wayback Machine (marshalling yards were next to an oil plant.)[specify] 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.[5]: 118 
April 19, 1944 Bad winter weather had reduced Wehrmacht fuel consumption, and Luftwaffe fuel supplies were 574,000 tonnes.[6]: 144  "…the enemy isn't attacking [the synthetic oil plants] because he wants them for his own use. He thinks it's enough to pulverize our airplanes" (Göring).[citation needed] "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).[37]: 655 
April 24, 1944 Ploiești 34 B-24s of the 450 BG targeted the marshalling yards and bombed the "Vega Oil Refinery".
April 1944 Salzbergen synthetic oil plant The "Hydrierwerke Salzbergen" was attacked.[31]: 2 
May 1, 1944 By May 1944, only 1.1% of Allied bombs had been used on oil targets.[4]: 4 
May 5, 1944 Ploiești The marshalling yards and oil refineries were bombed.[6]: 153  B-24s also bombed the Braşov450 BG & Ploiești marshalling yards on May 6.[38]
May 9, 1944 Bruges, Belgium 12 Bostons achieved near misses at an oil depot at Bruges.
May 12, 1944 Leipzig/Böhlen Mission 353 was the 1st trial raid on oil targets[39] to test the claim that the Luftwaffe would defend oil targets in Germany more than they had defended transportation targets.[40] RLV fighters put up their largest force ever, but five synthetic oil plants were successfully attacked[10]: 198  with 1,718 tons of bombs. A diversionary raid made on the Zwickau aircraft depot faced 200 Luftwaffe fighters[41]
May 12, 1944 Merseburg Mission 353: The 384 BG bombed Merseburg.
May 12, 1944 Lützkendorf Mission 353: 87 planes hit oil facilities at Lützkendorf near Leipzig, which had a small Wintershall[42] 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.[32] Plants were at "Lützkendorf" and "Lützkendorf-Mücheln" [sic].[26]
May 12, 1944 Zeitz Mission 353
May 12, 1944 Brüx, Czechoslovakia Mission 353 bombed Brüx. On December 15, 1942, Sudetenländische Treibstoffwerke AG (STW) had begun output of synthesized fuel from brown coal (German: braunkohle) at the Maltheuren plant at Brüx.[43]
May 13, 1944 Bad Zwischenahn, Germany First combat test flights of the Messerschmitt Me 163B rocket-powered interceptor fighter by Erprobungskommando 16, intended for defense of petroleum/oil/lubricants industry targets.[44]
May 18, 1944 Ploiești (Concordia Vega) The 464 BG bombed the Concordia Vega refinery.
May 19, 1944 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). "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… 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).[37]: 413  By May 28, fuel production had returned to the level prior to the May 12 raids.[37]: 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)[37]: 419 
May 26, 1944 Ploiești (Româno-Americană) The No. 205 Group RAF bombed the Româno-Americană refinery.[36]: 239 
May 28, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna Mission 376 dispatched a record force of 1,282 bombers against plants and refineries, losing 50[45] including 400 in the 2nd trial attack of oil targets.[39] 63 B-24s bombed Merseburg/Leuna, and Leuna resumed partial production on June 3 and reached 75% of capacity in early July.[39]
May 28, 1944 Lützkendorf The 486 BG again bombed Lützkendorf.
May 28, 1944 Magdeburg/Königsberg, Bavaria 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 (the 487 BG bombed the Magdeburg airplane factory on August 5, 1944.)
May 28, 1944 Magdeburg/Rothensee 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.[46] The Brabag subsidiary of Gesellschaft für Mineralölbau GmbH (established November 1936) designed the plants based on licensed information from other oil companies.[46]
May 28, 1944 Ruhland–Schwarzheide Mission 376: 38 B-17s bombed an oil target at Ruhland/Schwarz-Heide.
May 28, 1944 Zeitz Mission 376: 187 B-24s bombed "Zeitz-Tröglitz". KZ Tröglitz was a subcamp of Buchenwald
May 29, 1944 Pölitz Mission 379: 224 B-24s bombed an oil terminal at Pölitz. "Poelitz/Stettin" was a synthetic plant,[26] and on May 13, clouds had forced 272 B-17s (Mission 355) dispatched to oil targets in W Poland to bomb Stettin (Polish: Szczecin) and Stralsund.
May 28/29, 1944 Ploiești Ploiești was bombed.[37]: 415 
May 31, 1944 Ludwigshafen The 447 BG bombed the oil refinery.
May 31, 1944 The 485 BG bombed the Redeventa [sic] Refinery. "Lumina Petromina" was an additional Romanian refinery not in Ploiești or Bucharest.
May 31, 1944 The intelligence annex to the field order for the May 31 Ploiești mission stated "Successful attacks on [the aircraft factories at the] Wiener-Neustadter 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."[47][48]
May 31, 1944 Ploiești 32 B-24s of the 450 BG attacked the "Româno-Americană Oil Refinery", but failed due to the smoke screens.[6]: 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
June 5, 1944 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.[41] Romanian production had been reduced from 200,000 tons in February to 40,000 in June.[49]: 1477 
June 6, 1944[2][verification needed] Spaatz ordered that "the primary aim of the Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces would be to deny oil to the enemy".[35]: 118 
June 6, 1944 Ploiești (Dacia Română-485 BG, Româno-Americană-450 BG) In the 1st large-scale American attempt to use a dispersed bomber force to spread out fighter defenses in Romania, Ploiești was bombed[35]: 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)[36]: 145 
June 9 & 10, 1944 Porto Marghera Porto Marghera oil storage bombed.
June 10, 1944 Trieste B-24s bombed an oil refinery at Trieste.
June 10, 1944 Ploiești 36 P-38s dive-bombed 3 Ploiești oil refineries by flying under the smoke screens.[6]: 153 
June 11, 1944 Constanța B-24s bombed an oil installation at Constanța.
June 11, 1944 Giurgiu The 461 BG bombed the Giurgiu oil storage. 80 miles southeast of Ploiești, Giurgiu was "the most important transshipment point in Europe".[33]: 8 
June 11, 1944 Smederevo The 485 BG bombed the "Smedervo" [sic] oil refinery.
June 12/13, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern) The 1st RAF oil target bombing following the June 3 British Air Staff request for RAF Bomber Command to attack Ruhr oil plants[6]: 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.[50]
June 13, 1944 Porto Marghera The 461 BG targeted the Porto Marghera oil storage and hit the aluminum plant.
June 14, 1944 Emmerich am Rhein Mission 412: 61 B-24s hit the Emmerich, Germany oil refinery. Deutsche Gasolin plants were at Emmerich, Dollbergen, and Korneuburg.[34]
June 14, 1944 Pétfürdő The 464 BG bombed the Pétfürdő oil cracking plant. The 32 BS bombed a Budapest oil refinery.
June 14, 1944 [Expand] B-24s bomb oil targets Komárom (Hungary), and Osijek (Ipoil).
June 14, 1944 Caprag B-24s bombed oil target[s] at Sisak-Caprag.[35]: IV  Caprag refining capacity was 120,000 tons/yr.
June 14, 1944 Pardubice region B-24s bombed an oil target at Pardubice.
June 14, 1944 Osijek 39 B-24s of the 450 BG targeted the oil refinery.
June 14/15, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer) 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.
June 15, 1944 Hanover (Deurag-Nerag) Mission 414: 172 B-17s hit the Hanover/Misburg oil refinery, to which the Hanover-Misburg subcamp[51] of 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.[36] Hanover also had three tire plants: Vahrenwalderstrasse, Nordhafen, and Marienwerder (a rubber factory in Hanover was bombed on July 26, 1943, during Blitz Week).[52]: 241 
June 16, 1944 Vienna/Floridsdorf B-17s bombed the Floridsdorf [sic] oil refinery[verification needed] On this date the 464 BG bombed an oil blending plant at Vienna. Vienna was first bombed on March 17, 1944.[49]: 1477 
June 16, 1944 Kagran B-17s bombed the Kragan [sic] oil refinery[verification needed]
June 16, 1944 Vienna (Lobau) B-24s bombed the Lobau oil refinery west of Vienna.[53]
June 16, 1944 Vienna Schwechat 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.
June 16, 1944 Vienna B-24s bombed the Winterhafen oil depot. [37]
June 16, 1944 Bratislava (Apollo) 38 B-24s of the 450 BG targeted the Apollo oil refinery.
June 16, 1944 Szőny The 461 BG bombed the "oil storage installations" and earned a commendation from the 49th Bomb Wing commander (Lee).
June 16, 1944 Vienna (Schwechat) The oil refinery and the Heinkel-Süd aircraft factory were bombed.
June 16, 1944 Vienna (Winterhafen) Winterhafen oil refinery bombed.
June 17, 1944 [specify] B-26s attacked French fuel dumps.
June 17/18, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer) With most of the effort on railways, four Mosquitoes targeted the Scholven/Buer oil plant
June 18, 1944 Bremen The Bremen-Oslebshausen refinery was 1 of 11[specify] bombed on this date.[6]: 149  Bremen Oslebshausen refining capacity was 100,000 tons/yr.
June 18, 1944 Hamburg-Harburg refineries Mission 421: B-17s bombed Hamburg-Ebano (18), Hamburg-Eurotank (54), Hamburg-Ossag (38), and Hamburg-Schindler (36). The Ostermoor refinery was also at Hamburg.
June 18, 1944 Hanover (Deurag-Nerag) Mission 421: 88 B-17s bombed the Hanover-Misburg oil refinery.
June 18 & 23, 1944 Giurgiu The 485 BG bombed the oil installations at Giurgiu.
June 19, 1944 Sète 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, and a shale oil refinery was at Autun.
June 20 & 25, 1944 Balaruc-le-Vieux The 464 BG bombed oil refineries at "Balaruc". A Balaruc-le-Vieux target was bombed on the 25th.[38]
June 20, 1944 Hanover (Deurag-Nerag) Mission 425: 169 B-24s bombed the Deurag-Nerag crude oil refinery.[16]: 217 
June 20, 1944 Hamburg-Harburg refineries 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).
June 20, 1944 Magdeburg/Rothensee Mission 425: 95 B-17s bombed Magdeburg/Rothensee.
June 20, 1944 Pölitz 245 B-24s bombed.
June 21, 1944 The minimum number of flak guns 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).[54] 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 (German: 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.[6]: 149  Aviation fuel production (thousands of tons) was reduced the most in June 1944 (Wolfgang Birkenfeld, 1964):[49]: 1479 
June 21, 1944 Ruhland-Schwarzheide Mission 428: 123 B-17s bombed the Ruhland synthetic-oil plant south of Berlin en route to the Ukraine. That night, Luftwaffe bombers diverted to the Ukrainian base from a route to a nearby railroad target[55]: 287  and dropped 110 tons of bombs, destroying or damaging 69 of 114 B-17s at Poltava,[5]: 323  along with 200,000 gallons of aviation fuel plus 253 gallons of aviation oil.[56]
June 21/22, 1944 Wesseling 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".[39] Wesseling also had a Deutsche Norton grinding wheel plant.
June 21/22, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer) 123 Lancasters and 9 Mosquitoes attacked the synthetic-oil plant through cloud using Oboe skymarking and caused a loss of 20% production.
June 22, 1944 (Gennevilliers The Standard Oil Gennevilliers plant, capable of producing 2,200 metric tonnes per month, was bombed.[16]: 172 
June 22, 1944 Paris Mission 432: 101 B-24s hit an oil dump at Paris.
June 22, 1944 (Rouen Mission 432: 33 B-17s hit the Rouen oil depot.
June 22, 1944 [specify] B-26s attacked fuel dumps.
June 22, 1944 Erhard Milch briefed Göring that the Ruhr Area had half the entire synthetic oil capacity and all June fighter production should be used for its defense.[citation needed] 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". "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-->
June 23, 1944 (Giurgiu) B-24s bombed Giurgiu oil storage.
June 23, 1944 Ploiești The 32 BS bombed a Ploiești oil refinery.
June 24, 1944 Ploiești B-24s bombed an oil refinery.[38]
June 24, 1944 Bremen Mission 438: 213 B-17s bombed Bremen oil industry. The 92 BG bombed the Bremen "oil storage complex".
June 25, 1944 Montbartier Mission 441: 64 B-17s hit the Montbartier oil depot.
June 25, 1944 Sète The 32 BS bombed Sète oil storage.
June 25, 1944 400+ B-26s and A-20s hit French fuel dumps at Foret d'Andaine, Foret d'Ecouves, and Senonches.
June 25/26, 1944 Homberg 42 Mosquitoes bombed the Treibstoffwerke Rheinpreußen synthetic-oil plant[40] at Homberg/Meerbeck in the Ruhr.
June 26, 1944 Vienna (Schwechat) The Schwechat aircraft factory (Heinkel-Sud) and oil refinery were bombed.
June 26, 1944 Drohobycz 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 . 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.
June 26, 1944 Vienna (Floridsdorf) The Floridsdorf oil refinery and marshalling yard were bombed.
June 26, 1944 Korneuburg The 461 BG bombed "a refinery in the open country near the small town of Korneuburg".
June 26, 1944 Vienna (Moosbierbaum) The 455th BG received a 2nd Distinguished Unit Citation for bombing the Vienna (Moosbierbaum) oil refinery.
June 26, 1944 Vienna (Lobau) The Lobau oil refinery was bombed.
June 1944 Heydebreck The Heydebreck oil/chemical facilities near Cosel and Blechhammer were first bombed in June 1944.
June 27, 1944 Blechhammer South The 464 BG bombed the Blechhammer South synthetic oil plant.
June 27, 1944 Drohobycz B-24s bombed oil industry. The Drohobycz (Nafta) refinery produced 35,000 tons/year.
June 28, 1944 Paris/Dugny Mission 445: 18 B-17s hit the Dugny oil depot.
June 28, 1944 Bucharest In Bucharest,[26] where much of Ploiești's refined product was stored and distributed,[36]: 190  the 464 BG bombed the "Prohava [sic] Petrolul" refinery and the 485 BG bombed the "Titan Oil Refinery".
June 28/29, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer) 33 Mosquitoes bombed Saarbrücken (which had an airfield and marshalling yards)[57] and 10 bombed the Scholven/Buer oil plant.
June 29, 1944 Leipzig/Böhlen Mission 447: 81 B-17s bombed the Böhlen synthetic oil plant.
June 30, 1944 Blechhammer North & South The 461 BG & 464 BG bombed the South plant, and the 32 BS bombed the North plant.
June 30, 1944[37]: 417  "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 [58] … 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)[49]: 1479 
June 30/July 1, 1944 Homberg 40 Mosquitoes to Homberg oil plant.
July 2, 1944 Budapest (Shell) The 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 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,[41]: IV  and oil storage was at Budapest-Csepel.[42]: 40  Budapest also was the site of the Duna Repülőgépgyár Szigentmiklos assembly plant for Messerschmitt Me 210s and 410s.
July 3, 1944 Belgrade The 464 BG bombed the Shell oil depot at Belgrade.
July 3, 1944 Braşov The 32 BS bombed the Photogen oil refinery (formerly the Petroleum Refinery Transylvania).[59]
June 11 & July 13, 1944 (Porto Marghera) The 485 BG bombed the "Marghera Oil Storage" near Mestre.
July 6, 1944 (Porto Marghera) The 464 BG bombed the oil storage at Porto Marghera.
July 6, 1944 Ploiești The 461st BG bombed Ploiești oil targets.
July 7, 1944 The Joint Oil Targets Committee was set up.[6]: 149 
July 7, 1944 Blechhammer North & South 365 bombers attacked the North and South plants.[43]
July 7, 1944 Leipzig 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, 46 hit Leipzig Deutsche Kugellager Fabrik (D.K.F.) ball bearing works.[44]: 18  (The Leipzig DKF plant was also bombed on December 3/4, 1943.) 35 hit Kolleda Airfield, 19 hit Leipzig Station and 7 hit Nordhausen.[verification needed] Leipzig/Taucha had an oil refinery and a Mittledeutsche Jumo 211 engine plant. In March 1944, the Leipzig A.T.G. plant could complete final assembly of Ju 88 bombers at 10/month.[26]
July 7, 1944 Leipzig/Böhlen 64 B-17s, out of a 303-bomber force of Flying Fortresses hit the Böhlen oil plant.[60]
July 7, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna The 447 BG bombed Merseburg, and Leuna was shut down for 2 days. By July 19 production had risen to 53% of capacity.[39]
July 7, 1944 Leipzig/Lützkendorf 102 B-24s, out of a 373-bomber force of Liberators hit the Lützkendorf oil plant.[60]
July 8, 1944 Vienna (Floridsdorf) The 464 BG [57] and 465 BG earned Distinguished Unit Citations,[61] as the Heinkel-Süd plant in Floridsdorf was hit, destroying the third prototype of the He 177B four engined bomber, and possibly damaging the incomplete fourth prototype He 177B airframe.[62]
July 9, 1944 Ploiești B-24s bombed an oil refinery.[38]
July 11, 1944 (Porto Marghera) The 464 BG bombed the oil storage at Porto Marghera.
July 14, 1944 Budapest The 32 BS bombed a Budapest oil refinery
July 14, 1944 Budapest 26 B-24s of the 450 BG targeted the Ferencvaros marshalling yard and hit buildings, a factory, and a refinery.
July 15, 1944 Ploiești (Unirea Speranţa) 600+ B-17s and B-24s bombed 4 oil refineries in the Ploiești area and the "Teleajenul pumping station".[45] Archived 2009-03-13 at the Wayback Machine The 485 BG bombed the Sperantza [sic] Oil Refinery.
July 16, 1944 Vienna The 32 BS bombed a Vienna oil refinery.
July 17, 1944 Aviation fuel production was 2,307 daily tonnes (40% of original production).[37]: 416 
July 18, 1944 Kiel The 447 BG bombed Kiel oil targets.[46] During the September 12 major assault on the German oil industry (Mission 626), 58 B-24s also bombed a Kiel target.
July 18, 1944 Friedrichshafen The 464 BG bombed the synthetic fuel plant at Oberaderach.
July 18/19, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer) 157 bombers attacked. The raid "achieved complete surprise through radio silence"[24]: 466  and caused production to come to "a complete standstill for a long period".[63]
July 18/19, 1944 Wesseling 188 heavy bombers. The bombing destroyed 20% of the installations.[63]
July 20, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna The 447 BG bombed the Merseburg "synthetic oil refinery".
July 20/21, 1944 Bottrop-Welheim 166 bombers attacked the Ruhröl AG synthetic oil plant.[64]
July 20/21, 1944 Homberg 147 Lancasters attacked and caused severe damage
July 21, 1944 Brüx The 32 BS bombed.
July 22 & 28, 1944 Ploiești (Româno-Americană) The 464 BG bombed the Româno-Americană refinery.
July 23, 1944 Berat 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").
July 23, 1944 Donges, France 119 aircraft attacked an oil refinery and storage depot at the start of a new campaign "against oil targets in the occupied Countries."
July 25/26, 1944 Wanne-Eickel 135 bombers attacked the Krupp GmbH synthetic oil plant.[64]
July 28, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna Over Merseburg, the 92 BG bombed the synthetic oil refinery/storage, and the Me 163B Komet rocket fighters of I.Gruppe/JG 400 conducted its first point-defense attacks from its nearby field at Brandis,[65] engaging B-17s with escorts, including 8 P-51s of the 359th Fighter Group.[66] Merseburg-Leuna was bombed 6 times from July 20-September 28.[6]: 153  Leuna attacks on July 28 & 29; August 24; September 11, 13, & 28; and October 7 kept Leuna closed until October 14.[39]
July 28, 1944 Ploiești (Româno-Americană, Standard Petrol Block) 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).[53]
July 29, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna The 384 BG bombed Merseburg.
July 31, 1944 Luftwaffe fuel supplies were 35,000 tonnes in July.[citation needed] 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.)[37]: 417 
July 31, 1944 Bucharest Two oil refineries at Bucharest, one at Doicești, and oil storage at Targoviste were bombed.[67]
July 1944 Ploiești The 461st BG received a 2nd Distinguished Unit Citation for a July 1944 Ploiești bombing.
July 31, 1944 Ploiești (Xenia) The 461 BG bombed the Ploiești Xenia oil refinery.
August 1944 ULTRA intercepts indicated Luftwaffe ground crews were prohibited from leaving fuel in parked aircraft "to avoid losses" during bombing.[citation needed]
August 2, 1944 [Expand] 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 (461st BG) and Le Pontet oil storage facilities. The 447 BG bombed the St Dennis "oil and supply dump".
August 3, 1944 Friedrichshafen The 461 BG's primary target was the "Raderach Chemical Works", and the ZF Friedrichshafen "Zahnradfabrik" (English: gearwheel factory for vehicle transmissions) secondary target was also bombed. The chief tank factories were at Maybach, Nordbau (Frankfurt), and Zahnradfabrik,[47]: 21  and nearly all tank engines were produced at either the Maybach Motorenbau at Freidrichshafen and Norddeutsche Motorenbau at Berlin.
August 3, 1944 Mission 513: 62 B-24s bombed Brussels/Vilvoorde oil installations/dumps. The Ghent, Langerbrugge (Shell) plant was in Belgium.
August 3, 1944 Merkwiller-Pechelbronn Mission 512: 106 B-17s hit the Merkwille [sic] Oil Refinery. "Merkwiller, Pechelbronn, France" refining capacity was 130,000 tons/yr.
August 3, 1944 Terneuzen Mission 513: 10 B-24s bombed Ghent/Terneuzen oil installations/dumps in the Netherlands.
August 4, 1944 Bremen 50 B-17s bombed the Bremen-Oslebshausen oil refinery.
August 4, 1944 Hemmingstedt Mission 514: The Hemmingstedt/Heide oil refinery was bombed.
August 4, 1944 Hamburg-Harburg refineries 181 B-17s bombed Hamburg refineries. The 487 BG bombed the Nordholz refinery, and the 486 BG was attacked by Me 163 Komets.
August 4, 1944 Bec-d'Ambes The Bec-d'Ambes refinery that had opened at the Garonne/Dordogne river junction in 1931 was bombed.[48][permanent dead link]
August 4, 1944 Pauillac The Pauillac oil store was bombed in clear conditions without encountering German fighters.
August 6, 1944 Hemmingstedt Mission 524: 23 B-17s bombed Hemmingstedt.
August 6, 1944 Hamburg-Harburg refineries Mission 524: Hamburg oil refineries bombed at Hamburg/Deutsche (54), Hamburg/Eband [sic] (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.[citation needed]
August 6, 1944 Genshagen Mission 524: 74 B-17s bombed Genshagen, 45 hit Berlin diesel factories.
August 6, 1944 Le Pontet The 464 BG bombed a refinery at Le Pontet.
August 6, 1944 Le Pouzin Le Pouzin oil storage bombed in SE France.[49]
August 6, 1944 Lyon Lyon oil storage bombed in SE France.[50]
August 7, 1944 Blechhammer North & South The 464 BG bombed the Blechhammer North synthetic oil plant, and the 461 BG bombed the South plant.
August 7, 1944 Novi Sad 76 B-24s bombed Alibunar Airfield and Novi Sad oil facilities in Yugoslavia.
August 7, 1944 Dungy The 384 BG bombed the Dungy oil depot.
August 7, 1944 Blechhammer North & South 353 bombers attacked the synthetic oil refineries at Blechhammer South (B-17s) and North (B-24s).
August 7, 1944 Trzebina Mission 528: 55 B-17s and 29 P-51s attacked an "oil refinery at Trzebina, Poland" and returned to Operation Frantic bases in the Soviet Union.
August 8, 1944 Hanover/Dollberg The 398th BG bombed the Dollberg oil plant. Also known as Dollbergen, the village near Hanover had an oil refinery.[51]
August 9, 1944 Ploiești The No. 205 Group RAF bombed the Româno-Americană refinery. The 205 Group also bombed Ploiești on August 17.[36]: 239 
August 9, 1944 Brod B-17s bomb an oil refinery at Brod, Yugoslavia.
August 9, 1944 Almásfüzitő B-24s bomb an oil refinery at Budapest, Hungary. The 461 BG bombed the Almásfüzitő Oil Refinery.
August 10, 1944 Bec-d'Ambes 215 RAF aircraft dropped over 500 bombs and largely destroyed [52] the Bec d'Ambes refinery 15 miles from Bordeaux. Bordeaux was also bombed on December 31, 1944 and the Focke-Wulf plant at Bordeaux was bombed on August 24, 1943.[32]: 335–6 
August 10, 1944 La Pallice The La Pallice refinery 30 miles from Bordeaux was destroyed.[53][permanent dead link]
August 10, 1944 Gennevilliers Gennevilliers oil facility bombed [16]: 172 
August 10, 1944 Zeitz The BRABAG synthetic oil plant in Zeitz was bombed.[16]: 172, 232 
August 10, 1944 Ploiești 450+ B-17s and B-24s bombed 6 oil refineries.[54] Archived 2009-03-13 at the Wayback Machine The 464 BG bombed the Astra Română refinery, and the 461 BG bombed the Xenia oil refinery.
August 14, 1944 [specify] Mission 552: attacked 1 oil plant
August 15, 1944 Magdeburg/Rothensee 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.[12]
August 15, 1944 Leipzig/Rositz [55] Mission 556: 105 aircraft bombed.
August 15, 1944 Zeitz Mission 556: 101 aircraft bombed.
August 16, 1944 Friedrichshafen The 485 BG bombed the "Ober[raderach] chemical works".
August 16, 1944 Leipzig/Rositz The Rositz oil refinery was bombed.
August 16, 1944 Leipzig/Böhlen The 92 BG attacked the Böhlen oil refinery in Leipzig.
August 16, 1944 Leipzig/Rositz The 487 BG bombed the Rositz oil refinery.
August 16, 1944 Zeitz The 487 BG bombed the Zeitz oil refinery.
August 17, 1944 Ploiești 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]
August 18, 1944 Ploiești (Româno-Americană) 370 fighter-escorted B-17s and B-24s bombed 5 oil refineries around Ploiești. The 464 and 485 BGs bombed the "Americano" [sic] refinery.
August 18/19, 1944 Oberhausen (Sterkrade) 234 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.[64]
August 19, 1944 Ploiești 65 B-17s with 125 P-51s escorts bombed 2 Ploiești area oil refineries. Ploiești was captured August 30[68][69] after a total of 350 bombers had been lost attacking the area.[29]: 172  The Fifteenth Air Force had dropped 12,804 tons of explosives on Ploiești targets, On October 17, a Fifteenth Air Force B-17 carried a photo crew to Ploiești.
August 20, 1944 Dubová The oil refinery at Dubová was bombed.
August 20, 1944 Dwory First of 3 raids 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).[5]: 321  Ultra intercepts reported impressive bombing results for oil targets: "for the first time, wehrwirtschaftlich (English: war economy) raids, which might deal a really fatal blow to Germany, had begun" (Speer).[5]: 328 [verification needed] The town of Auschwitz (now called Oświęcim), the IG Farben Buna-Werke (under construction in November 1943), and the three concentration camp locations Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II (Birkenau), & Auschwitz III (Monowitz) were 5 separate facilities in the same region.[specify]
August 20, 1944 Czechowice-Dziedzice The 464 BG bombed the oil refinery at Czechowice. The Tschechowitz I & II subcamps of Auschwitz in Czechowice-Dziedzice provided forced labor for a SOCONY-Vacuum plant.[70]
August 21, 1944 Vienna The 484 BG received its second DUC for bombing an underground[verification needed] oil storage installation at Vienna.[56] Archived 2009-03-16 at the Wayback Machine
August 22, 1944 Odertal B-17s bombed the oil refinery at Odertal, Germany (German: Deschowitz, Polish: Zdzieszowice). POW camp E162 was at Odertal.[57]
August 22, 1944 Korneuburg B-24s bombed the oil refinery at Korneuburg. The 485 BG bombed the "Koreneuberg [sic] Oil Storage".
August 22, 1944 Blechhammer B-24s bombed the oil refinery at Blechhammer.
August 22, 1944 Vienna (Lobau) B-24s bombed the Lobau oil refinery. The 461 BG bombed the underground oil storage at the refinery.
August 23, 1944 Vienna (Vösendorf) The Vösendorf oil refinery was bombed in the southern industrial area of Vienna.
August 24, 1944 Brüx Mission 568: 139 B-17s hit Brüx.
August 24, 1944 Pardubice region The 485 BG bombed the Pardubice oil refinery.
August 24, 1944 Dresden/Freital 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.
August 24, 1944 Hanover (Deurag-Nerag) Mission 568: 88 B-24s bombed the Misburg oil refinery.
August 24, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna Mission 568: 185 B-17s bombed Leuna/Merseburg.
August 24, 1944 Ruhland-Schwarzheide Mission 568: 135 B-17s hit Ruhland.
August 24, 1944 Kolín Three oil refineries were bombed at Kolín.
August 24, 1944 Pardubice region The 464 BG earned a Distinguished Unit Citation[61]: 48  for bombing the Fanto Werke refinery at Pardubice.
August 25, 1944 Pölitz Mission 570: 169 B-17s bombed.
August 26, 1944 Dülmen Mission 576: 73 B-24s bombed the Dülmen fuel dump.
August 26, 1944 Emmerich am Rhein Mission 576: 36 B-24s bomb the Emmerich oil refinery.
August 26, 1944 IX Bomber Command, with fighter escort, bombed French fuel dumps at Saint-Gobain, Fournival/Bois-de-Mont, Compiègne/Clairoix.
August 26, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern) Mission 576: 85 B-17s bombed Gelsenkirchen/Nordstern.
August 26, 1944 Ludwigshafen-Oppau Mission 576: 41 B-24s bombed the "chemical works".
August 26, 1944 Salzbergen Mission 576: 71 B-24s bombed the "Wintershell [sic] oil refinery" (60,000 tons/year) at Salzbergen.
August 26, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer) Mission 576: 89 B-17s bombed the Gelsenkirchen/Buer oil refinery.
August 27, 1944 Homberg The RAF restarted daylight bombing of Germany with an attack on the Homberg Fischer-Tropsch plant.[6]: 149 
August 27, 1944 Blechhammer South The 464 and 485 BGs bombed the Blechhammer South synthetic oil plant (the 485th commander became a POW).[58]
August 28, 1944 Vienna (Moosbierbaum) B-17s hit Moosbierbaum oil refinery and adjacent chemical works.
August 28, 1944 Szőny The 464 and 485 BGs bombed the oil refinery.
August 29, 1944 Pardubice region Czechoslovakian oil refineries bombed included the Moravská–Ostrava oil refineries A minor Moravská Ostrava crude oil refinery was at Prwoz.[26]
August 30, 1944 Ploiești Soviet Red Army forces reached Bucharest on August 28, and the Ploiești oilfields on August 30.[10]: 204 [69]
September 3, 1944 After a lull in V-1 flying bomb attacks, the Allied Combined Strategic Targets Committee (CSTC)[59] switched the top bombing priority from Operation Crossbow to oil targets.[71]: 241  39% of US bomb tonnage from Oct-Dec was on synthetic oil plants.[60]
September 3, 1944 Ludwigshafen Mission 601: 325 of 345 B-17s bombed the Ludwigshafen/Opau [sic] synthetic oil plant.
September 5, 1944 Ludwigshafen Mission 605: 277 of 303 B-17s bombed the Ludwigshafen synthetic oil plant.
September 7, 1944 Ministry of Armaments and War Production After Speer completed the Effects of the Air War on September 6, the President of the 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).[61]: a2  "On principle, plants are only to be crippled temporarily by removing various elements to safety, particularly the electrical ones." (Speer telegram, September 13). August "chemical plant" production was 10% of former capacity. At the beginning of September, 1944, the Luftwaffe minimum fuel allotment was decreased from 160,000 monthly tons to 30,000 due to shortages.[72]: 210, 224 
September 8, 1944 Ludwigshafen Mission 611: 348 of 384 B-17s attacked the Ludwigshafen/Opau oil refinery.
September 8, 1944 Kassel Mission 611: 166 B-17s bombed an oil depot at Kassel.
September 10, 1944 Vienna 344 B-17s and B-24s bombed 5 ordnance depots and the SE industrial area in Vienna and 2 oil refineries in the area.
September 10, 1944 Vienna (Schwechat) The 32 BS bombed the Schwechat oil refinery.
September 11, 1944 Castrop-Rauxel The synthetic oil plant was bombed.
September 11, 1944 Chemnitz 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.[verification needed]
September 11, 1944 Dortmund The Dortmund synthetic oil plant was bombed.
September 11, 1944 Fulda 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.
September 11, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
September 11, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer) 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).
September 11, 1944 Hanover (Deurag-Nerag) Mission 623: 87 B-24s bombed the oil refinery at Misburg and 88 bombed an engine factory at Hanover.
September 11, 1944 Kamen The synthetic oil plant at Kamen was bombed.
September 11, 1944 Leipzig/Böhlen 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.
September 11, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna Mission 623: 111 B-17s bombed Merseburg.
September 11, 1944 Lützkendorf Mission 623: 96 B-17s bombed Lützkendorf.
September 11, 1944 Magdeburg Mission 623: At Magdeburg, 33 B-24s bombed the oil refinery and 27 bombed an ordnance depot.
September 11, 1944 Ruhland-Schwarzheide Mission 623: 22 B-17s bombed the Ruhland oil refinery.
September 11, 1944 Wanne-Eickel 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.[62]
September 11, 1944 Brüx Mission 623: 39 B-17s bombed Brüx.
September 12, 1944 Dortmund The Hoesch-Benzin GmbH synthetic oil plant at Dortmund was bombed.[64]
September 12, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer) The synthetic oil plant was bombed.[64]
September 12, 1944 Wanne-Eickel The synthetic oil plant was bombed.[64]
September 12, 1944 Hanover (Deurag-Nerag) 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.[63]
September 12, 1944 Hemmingstedt Mission 626: 66 B-24s bombed Hemmingstedt.[verification needed]
September 12, 1944 Leipzig/Böhlen Mission 626: 35 B-17s bombed a Böhlen oil industry target.
September 12, 1944 Magdeburg/Friedrichstadt Mission 626: 73 B-17s bombed a Magdeburg/Friedrichstadt oil target.
September 12, 1944 Magdeburg/Rothensee Mission 626: 144 B-17s bombed Magdeburg/Rothensee
September 12, 1944 Ruhland-Schwarzheide Mission 626: 59 B-17s bombed the Ruhland oil refinery.
September 12, 1944 Brüx Mission 626: 79 B-17s bombed the oil refinery at Brux.
September 13, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern) The synthetic oil plant was bombed.[64]
September 13, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna Mission 628: 141 B-17s bombed Merseburg.
September 13, 1944 Lützkendorf Mission 628: 77 B-17s bombed Lützkendorf.
September 13, 1944 Blechhammer North B-17s bombed Blechhammer North.
September 13, 1944 Leipzig/Merseburg (Altenburg) The 92 BG bombed the Altenburg oil refineries at "Merseburg".[verification needed]
September 13, 1944 Ludwigshafen Mission 628: 74 B-17s bombed the oil refinery.
September 13, 1944 Odertal B-24s bombed the oil refinery at Odertal. An Odertal target was also bombed in bad weather on October 16.
September 13, 1944 Stuttgart/Sindelfingen Mission 628: 109 B-17s bombed the oil refinery at Stuttgart/Sindelfingen. Sindelfingen also had a Daimler Benz truck plant, and an aircraft engine factory at Sindelfingen was bombed on September 10, 1944.
September 13, 1944 Dwory The 464 BG bombed the Auschwitz synthetic oil and rubber plant.
September 14, 1944 Hemmingstedt 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.[53] On this date 5000 planes flew over Germany.[68]
September 17, 1944 "…the enemy always… after the resumption of work, …destroy[s] these [synthetic oil] installations again by air attack" (Speer).[73] On July 20, Speer met with Ambassador Clodius of the Foreign Office regarding the "safeguarding of Rumanian oil." September "chemical plant" production was 5.5% of former capacity.
September 17, 1944 Budapest 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".
September 20, 1944 Bratislava In Czechoslovakia, the Bratislava "oil district" was bombed. Bratislava was the site of the Apollo refinery.[74] 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.
September 21, 1944 Ludwigshafen Mission 644: 147 of 154 dispatched B-17s bombed the synthetic oil plant at Ludwigshafen/Opau [sic].
September 23, 1944 Brüx 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.[64]: 40 
September 25, 1944 Ludwigshafen Mission 647: B-17s bombed the Ludwigshafen/Opau [sic] "synthetic oil plant".
September 26, 1944 Frankfurt am Main 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.[75]: 814, 820 
September 27, 1944 Bottrop-Welheim 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.
September 27, 1944 Ludwigshafen Mission 650: 214 B-17s bombed the Ludwigshafen/Opau [sic] oil refinery. A Ludwigshafen target was also bombed on October 13 (Mission 662).
September 27, 1944 Oberhausen (Sterkrade)
September 28, 1944 Magdeburg/Rothensee Mission 652: 23 B-17s bombed the Magdeburg/Rothensee oil refinery.
September 28, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna Mission 652: 301 of 342 dispatched B-17s bombed the "Merseburg/Leuna oil refinery".
September 30, 1944 Bottrop 1 of 136 bombers attempted to hit the cloud-covered oil plant.[specify]
September 30, 1944 Oberhausen (Sterkrade) 24 of 139 bombers attempted to hit the cloud-covered oil plant
September 30/01, 1944 Oberhausen (Sterkrade) 5 Mosquitoes to Hamburg bombed Sterkrade.[clarification needed]
October 3, 1944 Wesseling Mission 662: 87 B-17s were dispatched to bomb the Wesseling oil refinery.
October 6, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern) The synthetic oil plant was bombed.[64]
October 6, 1944 Oberhausen (Sterkrade) The 466th bombed Sterkrade.
October 6, 1944 Hamburg-Harburg refineries Mission 667: 121 of 406 dispatched B-24s bomb the Harburg/Rhenania oil refinery. Harburg also had a Phoenix tire plant.
October 7, 1944 Blechhammer South The Tuskegee Airmen provided escort.[65]
October 7, 1944 Kassel/Altenbauna 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.
October 7, 1944 Leipzig/Böhlen Mission 669: 86 B-17s bombed the oil plant.
October 7, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna Mission 669: 129 B-17s bombed the oil plant.
October 7, 1944 Lützkendorf Mission 669: 88 B-17s bombed the oil plant.
October 7, 1944 Magdeburg/Buckau Mission 669: 62 B-24s bombed the Magdeburg/Buckau oil refinery.
October 7, 1944 Magdeburg/Rothensee Mission 669: 25 B-24s bombed the Magdeburg/Rothensee oil refinery.
October 7, 1944 Pölitz Mission 669: 142 B-17s bombed the "oil refinery".[66]
October 7, 1944 Ruhland-Schwarzheide Mission 669: 59 B-17s bombed the "oil refinery".
October 7, 1944 Vienna (Lobau) The 741st Bombardment Squadron flew over Vienna to hit an oil refinery, and the Lobau oil refinery was bombed.[35]: 162 
October 7, 1944 Vienna (Schwechat) The Schwechat oil refinery was bombed.
October 7, 1944 Vienna (Winterhafen) The 450 BG bombed the "Winter Hafen [sic] Oil Depot" in Vienna.
October 11, 1944 Blechhammer Blechhammer bombed.
October 11, 1944 Leverhausen At Leverhausen in the Ruhr, the "largest chemical factory in Europe" was bombed.[67] Archived 2013-04-19 at archive.today
October 11, 1944 Wesseling Mission 672: 57 B-17s dispatched to bomb the Wesseling synthetic oil plant. The 384 BG bombed the Wesseling/Koblenz oil facility.
October 11 & 13, 1944 Vienna (Floridsdorf) The Floridsdorf oil refinery was bombed.
October 12, 1944 Wanne-Eickel The synthetic oil plant was bombed.[64]
October 12 & 13, 1944 Blechhammer South Blechhammer South was bombed on the 12th and by the 301 BG on the 13th.
October 14, 1944 Blechhammer North Blechhammer North was bombed in bad weather.
October 15, 1944 Düsseldorf-Reisholz Mission 677: 61 B-24s bombed the Düsseldorf-Reisholz oil facility. The Düsseldorf refinery produced 25,000 tons/year and had a Deutsche Carborundum grinding wheel plant.
October 15, 1944 Monheim am Rhein Mission 677: 64 B-24s bombed a Monheim/Rhenania oil facility.
October 16, 1944 Linz The benzol plant and ordnance depot at Linz was bombed. Linz also had a "steelworks".
October 16, 1944 Brüx Brüx and an armament works in Pilsen were bombed.
October 17, 1944 Leverkusen 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.[68] In 1943, targets at Leverkusen were attacked on August 22/23[69]: 161  (a complete failure)[70] and by the RAF on 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.[71]: 15 
October 17, 1944 Blechhammer South
October 17, 1944 The industrial area of Vienna was bombed.
October 18, 1944 CSTC Allied policy was changed to bomb oil targets even if reconnaissance was not available.[6]: 170  After Eisenhower notified Marshall on October 23 that the bombing of oil targets was being successful,[76] oil targets were retained in the highest priority, and the German rail system was made the second priority.^27.80 [verification needed]
October 19, 1944 Ludwigshafen An oil refinery at "Ludwigshafen & Mannheim" was bombed.
October 20, 1944 Brüx After having been out of operation for 4 months, the Brüx oil refinery was bombed.
October 20, 1944 Regensburg Oil storage at Regensburg was bombed.
October 23, 1944 Regensburg Regensburg oil storage depot bombed.
October 25, 1944 Hamburg-Harburg refineries 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.
October 25, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern) Mission 688: 27 B-24s bombed Gelsenkirchen/Nordstern.
October 25, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer) Mission 688: 91 B-24s bombed Gelsenkirchen/Buer; 34 hit the secondary at Münster and 1 hits Gronau.
October 26, 1944 Hamburg-Harburg The 92 BG bombed the two oil storage complexes in Hamburg.
October 30, 1944 Hamburg-Harburg refineries 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).
October 30, 1944 Gelsenkirchen/Hamm The 384 BG bombed the Gelsenkirchen/Hamm synthetic oil plant and marshalling yards.
October 31, 1944 Bottrop-Welheim 101 bombers attacked the Ruhröl AG synthetic oil plant.[64]
November 1944 Chemical plant production in October was 10% of former capacity and 28% (1633 tons/day) in November.
November 1, 1944 After the British Air Staff requested on June 3 that RAF Bomber Command attack Ruhr oil plants,[6]: 146  and Portal unsuccessfully attempted on July 5, 1944, to "move Harris away from area bombing to join the attacks on oil",[72] the Air Staff ordered Harris to bomb oil targets.
November 1, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern) The 384 BG bombed the "Gelsenkirchen/Nordsten" [sic] synthetic oil plant.
November 1, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer) 143 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.[64]
November 2, 1944 Castrop-Rauxel 131 bombers attacked the Union Victor synthetic oil plant.[64]
November 2, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna 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. A record 700 Luftwaffe fighters countered and the new Me 262, flying with the Luftwaffe's Kommando Nowotny shot down three bombers without loss.[citation needed] 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"[39]
November 2, 1944 Oberhausen (Sterkrade) The 384 BG bombed the Sterkrade (Holten) synthetic oil plant.
November 3, 1944 Vienna/Moosbierbaum 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.
November 4, 1944 Bottrop-Welheim The 384 BG bombed the Bottrop (Welheim) synthetic oil plant.
November 4, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern) 133 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.[64]
November 4, 1944 Hamburg-Harburg refineries The 447 BG bombed the Hamburg/Rhenania oil refinery[73] and the 92 BG bombed the Harburg oil complex. The production capacity of the Phoenix tire plant at Harburg was 50,000 tires/month.
November 4, 1944 Ludwigshafen The 447 BG bombed the Ludwigshafen oil refinery. Ludwigshafen was also bombed as a diversion during the Battle of Berlin on November 18/19, 1943.
November 4, 1944 Neuenkirchen The 487 BG bombed the Neuenkirchen coking plant and the 452 BG bombed the "Benzalube Stoking Plant" at Neunkirchen on a Micro H experimental mission.
November 4, 1944 Regensburg The 32 BS bombed Regensburg oil storage.
November 4 & 11-15, 1944 Linz The 485 BG bombed the benzol oil refinery.
November 4 & 7, 1944 Vienna (Floridsdorf) The 32 BS bombed.
November 5, 1944 Vienna (Floridsdorf) 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 Straszhof Austria mission), & December 18 (the marshalling yard on March 12).
November 5, 1944 Ludwigshafen-Oppau The 487 BG bombed the Ludwigshafen chemical works.[verification needed] A Ludwigshafen target was also bombed by the 466th on January 1, 1945.
November 6, 1944 Duisburg 65 bombers attacked the Bruckhausen coking plant.[64]
November 6, 1944 Oberhausen (Sterkrade) 134 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.[64]
November 6, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern) 738 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.[64]
November 6, 12-17 & 19, 1944 Vienna (Moosbierbaum) The 32 BS bombed the Moosbierbaum oil refinery.
November 6, 1944 Bottrop-Welheim The 384 BG bombed the Bottrop (Welheim) synthetic oil plant.
November 6, 1944 Hamburg-Harburg refineries The 92 BG bombed the Harburg oil complex.
November 8, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna The 384 BG bombed the Merseburg rubber facility[verification needed] and the 92 BG bombed the Leuna oil complex.
November 9, 1944 Wanne-Eickel 277 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.[64]
November 10, 1944 Wiesbaden The 452 BG bombed the oil plant: "Although other Aircraft, friendly, may be under you, drop your bombs" (Wing Commander). 9 B-17s also bombed a Wiesbaden target on November 13 (Mission 628).
November 11, 1944 A Speer memorandum identified that the oil and margarine plants in the Ruhr were on the verge of shutdown. The Vienna area had no fuel after November 15 (US intelligence report, February 1945).[74]: 5 
November 11, 1944 Castrop-Rauxel 122 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.[64]
November 11, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer) 100 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.[64]
November 11, 1944 Bottrop-Welheim 124 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.[64]
November 11, 1944 Vienna/Kajren The 450 BG bombed the "Kajren Oil Refinery".
November 11/12 & 15, 1944 Dortmund The Hoesch-Benzin synthetic oil plant was bombed.[64]
November 13, 1944 Blechhammer South The 32 BS bombed the South plant. Only 1 of 3 Pathfinders B-24s of the 450 BG was able to bomb "Blochhammer Synthetic, 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.[75]
November 13, 25, & 30, 1944 Linz The 32 BS bombed the Linz benzol plant.
November 17 & 20, 1944 Blechhammer South The 485 BG bombed the synthetic oil refinery.
November 18, 1944 The 32 BS bombed a Vienna oil refinery.
November 18/19, 1944 Wanne-Eickel 309bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.[64]
November 19, 1944 Vienna/Schwechat 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".
November 20, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer) 61 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.[64]
November 20, 1944 Hanover (Deurag-Nerag) Bomb damage from the attack was repaired by December 23.[76]
November 21, 1944 Koblenz The 447 BG bombed the oil refinery at Koblenz.
November 21, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna The 486 BG bombed Merseburg.
November 21/22, 1944 Castrop-Rauxel 273 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.[64]
November 21/22, 1944 Oberhausen (Sterkrade) 270 bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.[64]
November 23, 1944 Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern) 168 RAF bombers and 134 USAAF bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant.[64]
November 25, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna The 447 BG bombed the synthetic oil plant at Merseburg.
November 26, 1944 Hanover (Deurag-Nerag) The 491 BG earned a DUC for bombing an oil refinery at Misburg.[77] Archived 2009-03-16 at the Wayback Machine
November 29, 1944 Hanover (Deurag-Nerag) The 384 BG bombed the Misburg oil refinery.
November 30, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna The 487 BG bombed.
November 30, 1944 Lützkendorf The 452 BG bombed the "Lützkendorf, Germany (Merseburg)"[specify] synthetic oil plant: "Merseburg is infested with enemy fighters" (B-17 "IDA WANN" crewmember of the 452 BG).
November 30, 1944 Zeitz The 384 BG bombed the Zeitz oil facility.
December 2, 1944 Blechhammer North & South
December 2, 1944 Dortmund 83 bombers attacked the Zeche Hansa coking plant.[64]
December 2, 1944 Odertal
December 2, 1944 Vienna (Floridsdorf)
December 6, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna Mission 741: 446 B-17s bombed.
December 11, 1944 Oberhausen (Osterfeld) The Osterfeld coking plant was bombed.[64]
December 12, 1944[verification needed] Blechhammer South The 32 BS bombed the South plant.
December 12, 1944[verification needed] Darmstadt The 452 BG bombed the locomotive repair yard and due to propwash, one squadron hit the "world's largest Chemical plant. (By accident)". A Darmstadt target was bombed on September 13 (Mission 628) along with other oil targets. In September 1944, Darmstadt was the center of the chemical industry and the optical industry, and the city had an academy for training V-2 technicians.[citation needed]
December 6, 1944[verification needed] Leipzig/Leuna The 384 BG bombed the Leuna oil refinery.
December 8, 1944 Vienna (Moosbierbaum)
December 9, 1944 Regensburg oil refinery A Regensburg oil refinery was bombed. Regensburg had four small oil refineries for a total production of 80,000 tons/year.
December 11, 1944 Vienna (Moosbierbaum) The oil refinery was bombed.
December 12, 1944 Blechhammer South 6 PFF B-24s of the 450 BG bombed the primary and alternate targets, as well as a target of opportunity.
December 12, 1944 Leipzig/Leuna

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