The B-24 was the only bomber with the range and firepower to reach Ploesti and take out the facilities ... a bombardier on a Liberator. Airstrikes continued over the next few weeks, bookended ...

This is the story of Operation Tidal Wave - the famous B-24 Liberator bombing raid on Ploesti, Romania on August 1st of 1943 to strike the oil refineries of the Nazi war machine. The became a ...