Operation Tidal Wave, the Low-Level Strike on Ploesti, and the Five Medals of Honor Won on the Worst Sunday the B twenty-four Ever Flew
On 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.
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