The Archive · 1940

Blazing Streams of Oil

Refineries and nearby tanks were reduced by a succession of heavy accurate attacks to a vast mass of blaze ing wreckage, from which streams of burning oil were seen flowing along the ground. So many fires were Long War Possible, Italian Believe Zurich, Aug. 16.

"On the basis of the present 1'ilitary situation," a long war is possible, according to: the italian newspaper Corriere della Sera," states a dispatch from Milan to the "Neue Zuercher Zeitung."

The "Corriere della Sera" also says more air raids over Italian towns are to be expected.—Reuter. sterted that instead of helping the pilots coming later, the mass of flames mede identification more difficult.

One pilot even saw the glore 140 miles away.

A cracking plant, in which oil re sidness are further broken down, and an oil storage farm 12 miles north of Bordeaux were almost totally destroyed. For 2% hours raider after raider flew into the position and dropped bombs.

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