One of the downed American planes crashed into a female prison in Ploiești, resulting in about half of the civilian casualties from the total of 101 killed and 238 injured. [11] Romania had been a major …

Sep 6, 2013 · The Italy-based Fifteenth Air Force had that day launched hundreds of bombers against targets affiliated with Ploesti and other Axis petroleum production and shipping points. Nearly 70 …

At last, the American pilots could visualize their target: the massive oil refinery complex at Ploesti, Romania, 35 miles north of Bucharest. Under the code-name Operation TIDAL WAVE, the mission …

One of the most heavily defended targets in Europe, Ploesti lay outside the range of Allied bombers from England but could be reached by Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers from the Middle East or …

177 B-24’s, of IX Bomber Command (including Heavy Bombers on loan from Eighth AF) are dispatched to bomb oil refineries at Ploesti and nearby Campina. The operation (TIDALWAVE) is costly, 54 …

The August 1, 1943 Ploesti raid is one of the most discussed and debated bombing missions of World War II. The raid has been covered in particular detail by the book Ploesti by James Dugan & Carroll …

Jun 5, 2023 · Ploiești showed the Allies that any attempt to knock Romanian oil production out of the war required a greater commitment in time, materiel, and flexibility in operations to permanently …

Europe’s largest oil production and refining complex was at Ploesti (ploy-ESHT), approximately 35 miles north of Bucharest. Ploesti was also among the first sites in the world to commercially exploit oil, …

P loesti was a vast complex of oil refinery facilities located some 30 miles north of Bucharest, Romania. It supplied an estimated sixty percent of the refined oil necessary to keep the German war machine …

Jul 10, 2020 · Dubbed “Hitler’s Gas Station,” Ploesti held great strategic importance for Allied leaders, who hoped its complete destruction would strike a lethal blow to the German war effort. Up to that...