more specifically, it was on the outskirts of the black sea. which, of course, had a great amount of oil resources. a very vital ingredient for hitler's war machine. and i pick up reading here. in the midst of the mission. the weather was clear over the target, is the first american aircraft began their bombings, and those airmen have a good deal of the oil plants. crewmen could see huge explosions and fires in the refinery areas. but, soon, the smoke screen, the germans put up together with the rising smoke from the bomb explosions, obscured much of the target for the men in succeeding planes. ball turret rhino wrote in his diary, "we were the third group over the target. i saw the planes go down the out of the group ahead of us, the sky was black with flack and i was never so scared in all my life as i was when we started over the target let's code rhino was struck by a sliver of shrapnel but fortunately the injury proved inconsequential. myron king simply said, they shot the hell out of us. the plane had 150 holes in it when they got back he