Cancelled plan for the bombing of the Soviet Union by Britain and France
This article is about the World War II operation. For the New Zealand mine recovery, see Pike River Mine disaster.
Operation Pike
Part of World War II
Oil refinery in Baku. 1912. The French diplomat René Massigli, in a report to Paris, noted that US oil engineers observed "as a result of the manner in which the oil fields have been exploited, the earth is so saturated with oil that fire could spread immediately to the entire neighbouring region; it would be months before it could be extinguished and years before work could be resumed again".[1]
Date
Planned for late 1930s or early 1940s
Location
Soviet Union and Scandinavia
Status
Never carried out
Belligerents
United Kingdom:
Royal Air Force
France
French Air Force
Finland
Soviet Union Germany
Norway Sweden
Operation Pike was a proposed Anglo-French strategic bombing plan to destroy oil-production facilities in the Caucasus in the early years of the Second World War. Air Commodore John Slessor oversaw planning directed against Soviet oil industry.[2] British military planning against the Soviet Union occurred during the first two years (1939–1941) of the Second World War, when, despite formal Soviet neutrality, the British and French, as initial Allies of World War II, concluded that the German–Soviet Trade Agreement of 19 August 1939 and the German–Soviet pact of 23 August 1939 made Stalin an accomplice of Hitler and of Nazi Germany.[3] The plan envisaged destroying the Soviet oil industry to cause the collapse of the Soviet economy and to deprive Germany of Soviet resources.
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