On August 1, 1943, 178 American B-24s flew one of the costliest missions in bomber history, earning five Medals of Honor in a single afternoon over Romania.
TaildraggerOn August 1, 1943, 178 B-24 Liberators attacked Nazi oil refineries at Ploesti - the single most decorated combat action in American aviation history.
TaildraggerOn 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.
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.
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.
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