DAN wrote in news:hqsvvdl7mv12rjuu21e75hoga6f8rrcmck@
4ax.com:

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.