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| '''Operation Tidal Wave''' was an air attack by bombers of the [[United States Army Air Forces]] (USAAF) based in [[Libya]] on nine [[Oil refinery|oil refineries]] around [[Ploiești]], [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]] on 1 August 1943, during [[World War II]]. It was a [[Strategic bombing during World War II|strategic bombing mission]] and part of the "[[Oil campaign of World War II|oil campaign]]" to deny [[petroleum]]-based fuel to the [[Axis powers]].<ref name="homeofheroes">{{cite web|url=https://homeofheroes.com/heroes-sto...heroes-filled-the-sky/?print=print|title=When Heroes Filled The Sky|website=homeofheroes.com|access-date=14 February 2024}}</ref> The mission resulted in "no curtailment of overall product output".<ref name=WesternAxis/> | '''Operation Tidal Wave''' was an air attack by bombers of the [[United States Army Air Forces]] (USAAF) based in [[Romania]] on nine [[Oil refinery|oil refineries]] around [[Ploiești]], [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]] on 1 August 1943, during [[World War II]]. It was a [[Strategic bombing during World War II|strategic bombing mission]] and part of the "[[Oil campaign of World War II|oil campaign]]" to deny [[petroleum]]-based fuel to the [[Axis powers]].<ref name="homeofheroes">{{cite web|url=https://homeofheroes.com/heroes-sto...heroes-filled-the-sky/?print=print|title=When Heroes Filled The Sky|website=homeofheroes.com|access-date=14 February 2024}}</ref> The mission resulted in "no curtailment of overall product output".<ref name=WesternAxis/> |
| This operation was one of the costliest for the USAAF in the [[European Theater of World War II|European Theater]], with 53 aircraft and 500 aircrewmen lost. It was proportionally the most costly major Allied air raid of the war,{{sfn|Axworthy|1995|page=311}} and its date was later referred to as "Black Sunday". Five [[Medal of Honor|Medals of Honor]] and 56 [[Distinguished Service Cross (United States)|Distinguished Service Crosses]] along with numerous other awards went to Operation Tidal Wave crew members.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Hall of Valor Project |url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/22998 |website=The Hall of Valor Project |publisher=[[Military Times]] |access-date=1 August 2018}}</ref> A 1999 research report prepared for the [[Air War College]] at [[Maxwell Air Force Base]] in Alabama concluded that the bombing campaign in Ploiești was "one of the bloodiest and most heroic missions of all time".{{sfn|Schultz|2007|page=xii}} One of the downed American planes crashed into a female prison in Ploiești, resulting in about half of the civilian casualties from the total of 101 killed and 238 injured.<ref name="raport">{{cite web|url=https://www.iar80flyagain.org/raport-subsecretariat-de-stat-al-aerului/|title=Raport Subsecretariat de Stat al Aerului|language=ro|website=iar80flyagain.org|date=2023-05-17}}</ref> | This operation was one of the costliest for the USAAF in the [[European Theater of World War II|European Theater]], with 53 aircraft and 500 aircrewmen lost. It was proportionally the most costly major Allied air raid of the war,{{sfn|Axworthy|1995|page=311}} and its date was later referred to as "Black Sunday". Five [[Medal of Honor|Medals of Honor]] and 56 [[Distinguished Service Cross (United States)|Distinguished Service Crosses]] along with numerous other awards went to Operation Tidal Wave crew members.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Hall of Valor Project |url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/22998 |website=The Hall of Valor Project |publisher=[[Military Times]] |access-date=1 August 2018}}</ref> A 1999 research report prepared for the [[Air War College]] at [[Maxwell Air Force Base]] in Alabama concluded that the bombing campaign in Ploiești was "one of the bloodiest and most heroic missions of all time".{{sfn|Schultz|2007|page=xii}} One of the downed American planes crashed into a female prison in Ploiești, resulting in about half of the civilian casualties from the total of 101 killed and 238 injured.<ref name="raport">{{cite web|url=https://www.iar80flyagain.org/raport-subsecretariat-de-stat-al-aerului/|title=Raport Subsecretariat de Stat al Aerului|language=ro|website=iar80flyagain.org|date=2023-05-17}}</ref> |
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