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Even if optimistic, the Romanian claims compared favorably with the American sevenfold-plus exaggerations during Tidal Wave and subsequent raids. The system of air victory confirmations of the Royal Romanian Air Force was stricter than that of the Luftwaffe at the time of the raid. Luftwaffe losses amounted to five aircraft.
On 26 June, Tupolev SB, Ilyushin DB-3, and Il-4 bombers participated in a coordinated raid with Soviet warships on Constanța. [1] The King Carol I Bridge was also attacked by Zveno-SPB bombers two times in August. In the second raid, one of its spans was destroyed and an oil pipeline was damaged. [2]
In 1943, Capt. Harold "Cal" Calvert (Wendell Corey) is sent on a course at Smoky Hill, Kansas, to learn to fly a new bomber, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. His instructor is his cousin, Major Tom West (Forrest Tucker), an officer who the other pilots think has shirked his duties by claiming engine trouble on the raid over the Ploesti oil fields ...
Chronology Date Target/Topic Event May 15/16, 1940: Oil and other installations in Ruhr: In response to the bombing of Rotterdam, Western Air Plan 5 [4]: 4 was activated. . This was the first large-scale strategic bombing during World War II [5]: 53 and the first attack on the German interior - it inflicted little dama
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Despite the RAF and Harris claims regarding the great importance of oil targets, Harris had opposed assigning the highest priority to oil targets [20] but acknowledged post-war that the campaign was "a complete success" with the qualifier: "I still do not think that it was reasonable, at that time, to expect that the [oil] campaign would ...
The plan was for oil to be taken off by tanker and sold on the international market, with some gas being piped to Shetland. Production was scheduled to begin at Jackdaw in 2026 and at Rosebank in ...
An Arkansas prosecutor on Friday said a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent was justified when he fatally shot the Little Rock airport director during a raid at his house in ...