Image: B-24D's fly over Polesti during World War II
Description: B-24 Liberator Through flak and over the destruction created by preceding waves of bombers, these 15th Air Force B-24s leave Ploesti, Rumania, after one of the long series of attacks against the No. 1 oil target in Europe. (U.S. Air Force photo)[1] LOC caption: "Waves of Consolidated B-24 liberators of the 15th AAF fly over the target area, the Concordia Vega Oil refinery, Ploești, Romania, unmindful of bursting flak, after dropping their bomb loads on the oil cracking plant, on 31 May '44" Image appeared in Life magazine, unknown date.[2]
Title: Bombing of Concordia Vega oil refinery in Ploești by USAAF B-24s, 31 May 1944 — restored
Credit: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b43591. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.
Author: Richard R. Ganczak (1924—2014). Ganczak served radio operator and later a bombardier in the Fifteenth Air Force, flying 70 combat missions. This photograph was taken during his second tour.[2][3]
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