Operation Tidal Wave : the bloodiest air battle in the history of war / Vincent dePaul Lupiano.
Material type: TextPublisher: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2021]Description: xiv, 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781493053728
- 1493053728
- Bloodiest air battle in the history of war
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Great Council of War -- The Ladder -- HALPRO -- "The Smart Plan" -- Lumbering Lib -- Black Gold -- Eine Falle -- The Sandman Would Live Forever -- The Defense Did Not Rest -- Spies -- Smart Descends -- Secrets -- The Courage -- "Hit Then for Six! -- Everything Will Change -- Fortune's Wheel -- Crumble and Crackle -- Flak-Zug -- "Wrong Turn! Wrong Turn!" -- Wings of Madness -- And This They Did for Country -- Afterword -- The Sandman Redux.
"The story of the bloodiest air battle in the history of war, when 1,700 American airmen set out to bomb the oil refineries surrounding the city of Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943."-- Provided by publisher.