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Rod Braswell piloted a Liberator to Ploesti in raids 3, 4, and 5. Because exact details of the August calamity were kept vague, Braswell had little idea of the fury awaiting him. “After my first ...

The 96-year-old Laguna Woods resident, who received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service during the mission, which temporarily halted more than 40% of Ploesti’s refining capacity ...

Related stories The raid knocked about 46% of Ploesti's annual production offline, but the Germans had the refineries up and running at full capacity within three months. The US Army Air Forces ...

A “Tail-End Charley” (last plane of a flight) caught this picture of flaming Ploesti during the U.S. raid on the Rumanian oil center which supplies vital fuel to Germany (TIME, Aug. 9).

Less than four months earlier, the B-24 bomber on which he served as navigator, The Boomerang, was shot down during a daring raid on the Ploesti oil fields in Romania. All 11 crew members survived ...

After fighting the infamous Nazi General Erwin Rommel in Egypt, Cregger was part of the Ploesti Air Raid in 1943. It was one of the deadliest air runs of World War II. The goal was to knock out ...

Twenty-two aircraft crashed in the immediate area of Ploesti, Romania, during the Operation Tidal Wave attack of Aug. 1, 1943. The bodies of the airmen killed were recovered by Romanian citizens ...

Gilroy, better known as Smitty, is known for his final act of heroism when he gave his life over the oil fields over Ploesti, Romania on May 18, 1944. “He was a farm boy, born and raised in ...

Koehler said Mattice took part in the U.S. Air Force's operation in Ploesti, Romania, which was one of the most deadly missions during World War II. Known as Operation Tidal Wave, the Aug. 1 ...