Looking for pictures or video on Ploiesti bombing

This photo has recently been on sale on eBay. It is said to show a B-24 that has just returned from Operation Tidal Wave.

Thanks, i recently bhought a cd from Modelism.ro about 1 august 1943 and i see that romanians do not have allmost any film material about this event, just a few seconds of the flaming rafianries.

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Thanks, i recently bhought a cd from Modelism.ro about 1 august 1943 and i see that romanians do not have allmost any film material about this event, just a few seconds of the flaming rafianries.

Could you please give more details about the content of the CD? Thanks.

http://www.modelism.ro/cdrom12.htm

It contains two movies, first, the main movie, is a documentary made by TVR i think, it has some our days helicopter footage of the Ploiesti, it also contains some short takes made on Popesti-Leordeni showing romanian pilots making fun of the americans presance (they are coming on horses like the cowboys ) training whit a b24 maket, the flak operators, many iar80 takes, interview whit Carol Anastasescu (IAR80 pilot), the burning rafinaries, interviw whit Nicoale Sculy (me109g pilot), Nicolae Fotescu (IAR80 pilot), a few b24 wreks, and a Serbanescu comemorance made in 1990 i think. And some takes made from Liberators, but nothing rare, the same takes from Liberators that we can see at British Pathe Journals.
The movie is 26 minutes long. Is only one problem, it has english sub, and the writng is preaty big and it eats a lot of image

The second movie is not about 1 august but just a general view about the romanians passion for flight.

If you whant i can land you the cd.

Thanks for your description. The one on http://www.modelism.ro/cdrom12.htm is unfortunately a bit dry.

This photo is now on sale on eBay



It is said to show a B-17 going down in flames after being hit over Ploiesti.

Consolidated B-24 Liberators bombing Ploieşti fly through bursting flak and smoke billowing from hits on oil tanks.

(now on eBay)

I have many photos of the ploesti bombing from various Sqd books ( Tidalwave) also videos on DVD from USAF

Here's a bomb sight photo of the Maj .Addison Baker CMH Recepient subsequent crash and burst in flames. Courtesy of USAF archives , 93rd BG archives. Major Addison Bakker perished with the entire crew while insisting on the preflight breafing that if ever hit over the target he will dive into it with the liberator and its entire crew . His medals ,photos etc were donated by his French wife to a USAF museum in Florida

Al

This post has been edited by alexkdl on October 22, 2004 05:00 pm

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From the flight deck of the 93rd BG TUPELO LASS , Ray Wier's camera captures an exploding storage tank tank. Note the B-24 ahead banking away from the inferno which just occured over the G/A flack on Ploesti suburbs

This post has been edited by alexkdl on October 22, 2004 04:49 pm

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Here's a classified bombsight photos over campina 1 Aug 1943 , courtesy 93rd BG
Al

This post has been edited by alexkdl on October 22, 2004 04:35 pm

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WOW!!! this is new
thank you verry much!

Courtesy of Eusebiu Hladiuk.

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arigato!
But this is a color photo?
Are there any others like this??

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This post has been edited by Victor on October 26, 2004 05:33 pm

Cipiamon, you have been here long enough to know the rules. The forum language is English and I hate translating what others write. You have a warning.

The photo may seem colored, because it was photocopied with teh digital camera.