On August 1, 1943, 177 B-24s flew a low-level strike against Ploesti's oil refineries - earning five Medals of Honor in a single afternoon.
TaildraggerOn August 1, 1943, 178 B-24 Liberators attacked Nazi-controlled oil refineries at treetop level in the costliest and most decorated single-day mission in Army Air Forces history.
TaildraggerThe B-24 Liberator was WWII's most-produced American warplane, and the Strawberry Bitch at Wright-Patterson is the last surviving B-24D combat veteran.
TaildraggerThe Lady Be Good vanished into the Libyan desert in 1943 and sat undisturbed for 16 years - a navigation failure that still instructs pilots today.
TaildraggerOn August 1, 1943, five U.S. bomb groups flew a 50-foot attack on the Ploesti oil refineries, earning five Medals of Honor in a single afternoon.
TaildraggerThe Lady Be Good, a WWII B-24 Liberator, was found intact in the Sahara 16 years after a faulty radio compass led its crew to bail out 240 miles inside the desert.
TaildraggerOn August 1, 1943, 164 B-24 Liberators flew a low-level strike on Romania's Ploesti oil refineries, producing five Medals of Honor in a single mission - a record never equaled in U.S. military history.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores Operation Tidal Wave, the Low-Level B Twenty-Four Raid on the Ploesti Oil Refineries, August First, Nineteen Forty-Three.
TaildraggerOperation Tidal Wave, the August 1, 1943 low-level B-24 raid on Ploesti, became the costliest U.S. air mission of WWII.
TaildraggerOperation Tidal Wave was the daring August 1, 1943 low-level B-24 raid on Ploesti's oil refineries - costly, heroic, and strategically incomplete.
TaildraggerThe 1943 Ploesti raid sent 178 low-flying B-24 Liberators against Hitler's oil, earning five Medals of Honor at a staggering cost.
TaildraggerOperation Tidal Wave on August 1, 1943 sent 178 B-24 Liberators against Romania's Ploesti oil refineries at treetop level, producing five Medals of Honor in a single mission.
TaildraggerOn August 1, 1943, 177 B-24 Liberators flew at treetop level into the most defended target in Europe, earning five Medals of Honor in a single afternoon.
TaildraggerJimmy Stewart flew twenty combat missions over Nazi Germany in a B-24 Liberator, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross twice.
TaildraggerThunder Over Michigan returns to Willow Run Airport, where Ford built a B-24 bomber every hour during WWII.
RampThe B-24 Lady Be Good vanished over the Sahara in 1943 and was found intact sixteen years later, four hundred miles past its base.
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