On the American Strategic Bombing Campaign Against the Germans in World War 2

It was a huge success. As A.C. Grayling, Earl Beck, Robin Neillands, and even the United States Strategic Bombing Survey have all pointed out, it was the relentless bombing attacks on the oil fields of Romania and Hungary, on the German synthetic oil plants at Leuna, Brux, Zeitz, Lutzendorf, etc., and on the various oil refineries in Germany and Austria that ultimately devastated the German war effort in that it totally obliterated their fuel supply and all but grounded their air force...........................................................................................And you don't have to rake my word for it, either. Here, folks, is a quote directly from Albert Speer; "The enemy has succeeded in increasing our losses of aviation gasoline up to 90% by 22 June (of '44). Only though speedy recovery of damaged plants has it been possible to regain partly of some of those terrible losses."..........................................................................................P.S. And here are some of the numbers. In May of 1944, Germany was producing 316,000 tons of fuel a month. By September, it had fallen all the way to 17,000 tons a month (with only 5,000 tons of it being aviation fuel). This is a success by anyone's standards and even Mad-Bomber Harris had to admit it when he wrote his memoir three years later (taking credit for it, of course!).