Naval units or planes from carriers might attack Petsamo but air attacks on any other part of Finland, including Helsinki, direct from British bases necessitates a hazardous round trip of 2.000 miles, even if the planes flew over neutral Sweden.
Similiarly, Bucharest and Ploesti oil fields are likely to escape bomb-ug. because they are about 1000 miles distant from the nearest British irflelds in Egypt and Malta.
Even Budapest, is 850 miles by direct line from Malta. Thus only the involvement of Turkey against the Axis or a British offensive in sorthern Norway would give the Paval Air Force onnortunity to nound Rumanian. Hungarian and Finni-" owns, Planes based in European Tur-kev could reach Bucharest and Ploesti in about one hour via "neutral" Bulgaria -Tnited Press,
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