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Operation Tidal Wave
- The Bloodiest Air Battle in the History of War
- Narrated by: Roy Worley, Robert Brinkmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Operation Tidal Wave
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Publisher's Summary
Operation Tidal Wave tells the story of the bloodiest air battle in the history of war. It is about 1,700 airmen who set out to bomb the oil refineries surrounding the city of Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943. Success, they thought, would be a force in ending the war. Success, instead, was extremely limited, and 500 airmen were killed, wounded, captured, or interned. Negligible damage resulted at the Ploesti refineries, and a few months later, they were operating at 100 percent capacity. To show the asperity of the raid, five Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded, two posthumously.