<P> In late summer 1944 the Allies began using reconnaissance photo information to time bombing with the resumption of production at a facility . Even with the weather limitations: "This was the big breakthrough...a plant would be wounded...by successive attacks on its electrical grid--its nervous system--and on its gas and water mains ." (author Donald Miller). However, due to bad fall and winter weather, a "far greater tonnage" was expended on Transportation Plan targets than oil targets . The benzol (oil) plant at Linz in Austria was bombed on 16 October 1944 . </P> <P> In January 1945, the priority of oil targets was lowered . </P> <P> To prevent oil supplies from Romania reaching Germany, the RAF had extended its aerial mining activities to the Danube . </P> <P> Despite the RAF and Harris claims regarding the great importance of oil targets, Harris had opposed assigning the highest priority to oil targets but acknowledged post-war that the campaign was "a complete success" with the qualifier: "I still do not think that it was reasonable, at that time, to expect that the (oil) campaign would succeed; what the Allied strategists did was to bet on an outsider, and it happened to win the race ." </P>

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