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OPERATION TIDAL WAVE . MST012

Name: Operation tidal wave
SKU: MST012
Price: 29.00 EUR

OPERATION TIDAL WAVE

The bloodiest air battle in the history of war

Vincent DEPAUL LUPIANO

2021, 240 pages, format 16X 23.5, 16 pages de photos NB, texte en anglais.

29,00 €

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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.