| Re: Bombing Runs, pt 2 - B 24 08.jpg (1/1) |
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| Mitchell Holman (noemail@verizont.net) |
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DAN <dan@no.spam.thanks> wrote in news:hqsvvdl7mv12rjuu21e75hoga6f8rrcmck@
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> B-24s low altitude bombing of refineries at Ploesti, Romania
> op Tidal Wave 1943-08-01
>
> Black Sunday: 2nd-worst loss on a single USAAF mission: 660 aircrew.
> 178 B-24s took off, only 88 made it back to Libya.
> All for "no result" in curtailing output.
>
> RIP to the brave men.
>
The 8th Air Force alone lost more men in
WWII than the entire US Marine Corps. That
stat always amazes me.
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