55,740 Tons and the Polish Theater Target List
A redacted codeword and 15 months of silence hid the precise locations of Warsaw Pact fuel reserves in Poland, blueprints for a strike that would have paralyzed an entire army.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Strategic Bombing
Axis Oil and the London Joint Target Group's Blueprint for Collapse
Allied planners mapped every refinery and pipeline to starve the Axis of fuel, leaving a trail of correspondence stored in field offices that hides the names of the men who chose the targets.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Germany's Oil Fields and the Top Secret Logic of the Working Committee
Kept secret for decades, these reports map the systematic destruction of fuel networks across Europe, though the names of the sources who betrayed the sites remain blacked out.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Balkan Aircraft Plants and the 8th Air Force's Target List
Axis industrial capacity was tracked for years in files that separate the targets from the spies who found them, leaving the human cost of the bombing runs as the only clear metric.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Rear-Admiral Lisyutin Targeted 100 Million Tons of US Shipping
Soviet planners weighed the destruction of 100 million tons of shipping and the slaughter of carrier crews, a strategy hidden from the public until June 2017.
By Roy Castellano ·
OSS Targeted Port Workers in Bremerhaven and Wesermunde
Dockworkers and sailors in Bremerhaven and Wesermunde were mapped from the air by a secret unit, turning their workplaces into coordinates for Allied bombers.
By Desmond Okafor ·