ploesti in a sentence

1. • Honored Doctor of Ploesti Oil and Gas University (Romania);

2. Moreover, Romania’s Ploesti oil resources (under Nazi control until 1944) were minimal.

3. In the summer of 1943, the USAAF decided to stage a major raid on Ploesti from air bases in Libya.

4. Where fuel is concerned, the treaty of Bucharest has already allowed the Germans the Romanian oil from Ploesti for a period of thirty years.

5. On 1 August 1943, Baker commanded the VIII Bomber Command's 93d Bombardment Group on a daring but ill-fated low-level attack against enemy oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania.

6. Initial assessments argued that the mission caused 40% of the refinery capacity at Ploesti to be lost but subsequent studies concluded that the damage was quickly repaired and that output had exceeded August levels within a month.