Enemy Objectives Unit - Casablanca and Pointblank

Casablanca and Pointblank

Casablanca and Pointblank were guidelines for the EOU and helped them choose which targets to choose as a priority over others. The Casablanca plan gave guidelines that chose the five most important targets. The five points were The EOU targeted five main points of the German Army

1.) German navy

2.) German air force

3.) Transportation

4.) Oil

5.) Any other targets vital to the economy

The EOU would now incorporate their ways of finding targets and try to choose the best targets. One point which this group underestimated was the effectiveness of bombing German oil refineries—they had correctly estimated the amount of stocks kept but failed to account for the immediate conservation methods the Germans would employ. The later attacks on Nazi fuel reserves are thought by many historians to be a substantial factor in Nazi defeat. As the war progressed however, there was a call for a new plan, Pointblank. This plan ignored the five points from the Casablanca plan and told EOU workers to target German air force, as this field was doing the most damage to the allies. The EOU proved to be a vital tool to the allies’ air force and helped with the defeat of the Germans in World War II.