America's band of roughnecks fueled allied D-Day mission
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Last updated 9/9/2021 at 10:30am
When thinking of England’s fabled Sherwood Forest, the medieval images of Robin Hood and his band of archers and swordsmen hiding in the woods giving the sheriff of Nottingham a hard time comes to mind.
Who would envision a crew of young American oil workers concealed among the giant oaks drilling oil wells? However, the crude production from those wells was essential in helping fuel the D-Day invasion launched from English shores in 1944.
Until Guy Woodward and Grace Steele Woodward published “The Secret of Sherwood Forest – Oil Production in England during World War II” in 1973,...
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