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Operation Tidal Wave: The Bloodiest Air Battle in the History of War

By Vincent dePaul Lupiano

Book information

Publisher
Lyons Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781493053735, 2020010418, 2020010419, 9781493053728
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2932857 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-01 18:55:42
HIS027100HistoryMilitaryNonfiction

Description

Operation Tidal Wave tells the story of the bloodiest air battle in the history of war. It is about 1700 airmen who set out to bomb the oil refineries surrounding the city of Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943. Success, they thought, would be a force in ending the war. Success instead was extremely limited and 500 airmen were killed, wounded, captured, or interned. Negligible damage resulted at the Ploesti refineries, and a few months later they were operating at one-hundred percent capacity. To show the asperity of the raid, five Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded, two posthumously.

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