As B-24 bombers reached Ploesti, they faced a terrifying gauntlet of anti-aircraft fire, barrage balloons, smoke, and enemy fighters. Navigational errors and heavy German defenses turned the mission ...
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One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at Ploesti. The low-altitude bombing raid aimed to cripple German fuel production ...