On August 1, 1943, an enormous armada of America B-24 Liberator bombers roared at nearly treetop level over the peaceful farms and villages of Romania. This mission was Operation Tidal Wave. Its target—“the taproot of German might,” Hitler’s giant oil refineries at Ploesti. Hundreds of U.S. airme...
Marshall, New York Herald Tribune by James Dugan and Carroll Stewart A THOUSAND MILES INSIDE ENEMY TERRITORY! Twenty years ago, 1,763 Americans headed their unescorted Liberator bombers toward Ploesti, the German oil refinery deep in Rumania. Their impossible task was to destroy, from zero altitu...