The Most Insane Low-Level Bombing Raid of WWIl | The Ploiesti Raid

Today we discuss Operation Tidal Wave, the 1 August 1943 low-level B-24 raid on the Ploesti oil refineries, with author Adam Makos, whose new book follows a rookie Liberator crew shot down over Romania.

Operation Tidal Wave: https://link.amazon/B07tn9TK9Adam Makos, out November 3rd -- Signed and personalized copies: https://valorstudios.com

In the summer of 1943, every B-24 Liberator on the Atlantic side of the war wasgathered at a dirt strip near Benghazi for a 2,000 mile round trip against therefineries feeding roughly a third of Hitler's oil. The Norden bombsights cameout of the aircraft. Crews trained so low they came home with bomb bay doorscaved in, and one of them hit a camel.

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