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Ironic that there was plenty of oil under Sakhalin island, it just hadn't been discovered yet. The North African campaign was similar in that it was partly an
by rjsw 8y ago
Ironic that there was plenty of oil under Sakhalin island, it just hadn't been discovered yet.
The North African campaign was similar in that it was partly an attempt to get to the Arabian oilfields, but fought over the top of at the time undiscovered Libyan ones.
- narrator 8y agoOne of the main reasons for the battle of Stalingrad was for Hitler to secure a route to the oil fields of Baku, Azerbaijan.
- nickik 8y agoThey actually didnt have a plan for Baku. That was way to far. However there were oil fields in Grozny and Maikop that was their actual goal. They actually almost got one of the cities but Fall Blau was a total desaster and the German spearheads were opposed by to many soviet troups.
- nickik 8y agoThere were basically no oil fields in Arab lands at that time. The oil back then came from the US, Soviet Union (Baku) and Persia.