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USAF Generals Ira Eaker and Twining visit the Ploesti oil storage tanks after bombing by the USAF in Romania.

U.S. Army Air Forces Generals Ira Clarence Eaker and Nathan Farragut Twining visit Ploiesti or Ploesti oil fields in Romania during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces Generals Ira Clarence Eaker and Nathan Farragut Twining get off from an aircraft at an airfield. The Generals greeted by Romanian Army Air Force officers. General Eaker and General Twining, escorted by the Romanian officers, visit the Ploiesti oil storage tanks after being bombed by the U.S. Army Air Forces. The wreckage at the oil fields. The bombed tanks. The Generals talk. A view of the bombed Ploesti oil fields.

Location: Romania
Date: 1944, November 2
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069635
Destruction in Ploesti, and Brasov, Romania, from U.S. Army Air Forces bombing during World War II

Destroyed rail yards in Ploesti (Ploiesti) Romania, from attack by U.S. 15th Air Force bombers, during World War 2. Destroyed rail cars and damaged switch yard. Fires burning in distant background. Passenger trains with slight damage to their cars. One is labeled in Hungarian: "NEMZETKOZI JALOKOCSI ES EUROPAI"(International sleeping cars and Europe).Twisted rails and ties beneath a bridge and all along the rail lines in and out of the marshaling yards. Destroyed stations and steel frameworks of trains. Repair crew pulling a rail car along some useable track. A church in the background (possibly St Pantelimon Church). Bombed-out industrial buildings and railroad sidings. Locomotives steaming as trains sit on some remaining useable track. Work crews looking over the wreckage. Lumber strewn all over an area. At timecode 2:11, Scene shifts to Brasov, Romania, in May, 1944, with a truck driving toward the camera on a street parallel to the Railroad Station Square. The camera pans left, past destroyed buildings to the Station Square where a bus and some passengers are seen. Camera pans right showing more destroyed buildings, and then a locomotive steaming at head of a train on some undamaged rails. Views of bombed out freight cars. At timecode 2:54, Men are seen sitting and standing on useable rails as they look at some destroyed rail cars. The station is seen in distance at the right. View is along the railroad leading in the direction of Bucharest. Remaining views show the damage to building at Station Square, and the bus parked there.

Location: Ploesti Romania
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054530
Wreckage of bombed oil refineries at Ploesti (WWII)

15th Air Force Operation Reunion (Operation Gunn) Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Evacuation Party inspects damage to Ploesti oil refineries. Romanian military and government officials accompany the OSS Evacuation Party officers. Oil refinery lay in ruins after Allied bombing ended. Debris and rubble are scattered over the destroyed oil refinery. An OSS officer writes on his notebook during the inspection. The OSS officers questioning a Romanian oil refinery assistant manager. A man walks past a large cylindrical tank. Oil drums lay scattered with debris outside an oil refinery. Smokestacks in oil refinery. Shots of the wrecked Ploesti oil refinery made by Lieutenant JG Forbes. View of damaged building with pile of rubble. Pipes and oil tanks in refinery. Allied and Romanian officials move through the rubble while touring the damaged oil refinery. Façade of a destroyed brick building. A damaged building in Ploesti. “Laborator” is written on the portico of the building.

Location: Romania
Date: 1944, August
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079885
Transportation of oil from refining center in Ploiesti, Romania, and oil drilling at Moreni oil center in Prahova, Romania.

Transportation and production of oil in Europe. Transportation of oil via railroad tank cars from the refining center at Ploiesti (Ploesti) in Romania. View of the Moreni oil center in the Prahova district in Romania. Several oil derricks. An oil rig in operation on a hill side.

Location: Prahova Romania
Date: 1926
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050503
Fires resulting from U.S. 15th Air Force bombing at oil refining and storage facilities in Ploesti, Romania, during World War II.

Romanian firefighters, assisted by helmeted German soldiers, direct hoses on fire at oil storage facility in Ploesti, Romania, following bombing by U.S. 15th Air Force in World War 2. The oil fires seem difficult to extinguish with water. Later, extremely heavy clouds of black smoke are seen billowing from a complex of storage tanks. Firefighters are helpless to intervene. One stands with hands on his hips as he simply watches the inferno. Views of the damaged facility in the aftermath, several days later.

Location: Ploesti Romania
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054528
Trains of petroleum tank cars set ablaze in Ploesti Romania by U.S. 15th Air Force bombing during World War II

Smoke rising from bombing at rail yards in Ploesti (Ploiesti) Romania,during World War 2. View of tank cars and petroleum storage tanks in the rail facilities. A locomotive sitting on a track partially obscured by heavy smoke blowing across the scene. Smoke coming from trains of tank cars that have been bombed.Firefighters training hoses on flames and black smoke rising high into the air. Firefighter silhouetted against the flames as he climbs a ladder next to embankment bringing a hose to train on the fires.

Location: Ploesti Romania
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054531
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