Almásfüzitő is a village in Komárom-Esztergom county,

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

. During the Oil Campaign of World War II, the Almásfüzitő oil refinery was bombed by the

United States Army Air Forces The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and ''de facto'' aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II ...

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In the 2014 video game Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, an audio tape can be found. On this tape, the heavily scarred antagonist Skull Face describes a traumatizing incident from his childhood in which the weapons factory his parents worked at was bombed; his parents were killed and he was maimed by burning hot oil. The events told seem to align with the real-life events of the bombing.''Metal Gear Solid V; Ground Zeroes'', Kojima Productions (2014) Adding further credence to his story is that Skull Face occasionally speaks Hungarian to his underlings.

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Populated places in Komárom-Esztergom County Oil campaign of World War II {{Komarom-geo-stub