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B-24 Liberator bombers raid Romania's Ploiesti oil fields and synthetic oil plants in Central Germany during World War II.

United States bombers bomb German-held oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania during World War II (Operation Tidal Wave). Allied military leaders including United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower confer prior to the Normandy Invasion. Cartoon depiction of buildings, tanks, and equipment in Romanian oil refineries. Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers raid Romania's Ploesti oil refineries. A group of B-24 Liberator bombers dropping bombs over Ploesti. Explosions throwing billows of smoke up in air. Aerial view of Ploesti being bombarded by bombing and clouds of smoke from explosion. A map of Germany shows synthetic oil plant positions through Central Germany. Bombers drop bombs over synthetic oil plants in Germany. Firefighters rush to put out fire in oil plant during a bombing attack. Firefighters spraying water on burning oil tanks. Thick, dark clouds of smoke cover the burning oil plant. A German synthetic oil plant reduced to rubble. German workers clear the rubble from bombed plants. Ruins of German oil plants after repeated air raid attacks. “The enemy has succeeded in increasing our losses of aviation gasoline up to ninety percent” a voiceover narrates the words of Nazi German Reichsminister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer. German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt speaks to an audience.

Date: 1943, August
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047530
Fires rage from 15th Air Force raid an oil refinery in Ploiesti, Romania, during World War II.

A huge fire seen at night in petroleum facilities bombed by the U.S. 15th Air Force, at Ploiesti (or Ploesti) Romania, during World War 2. Flames and heavy smoke rises up amongst storage tanks and facilities. Several Helmeted German soldiers are seen silhouetted against the flames as they make their way through the area.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054527
Last part of a U.S. Army Air Forces film to prepare aircrews for bombing raid on Ploesti oil facilities in Romania in World War II

Training and motivational film for U.S. Army Air Force crews preparing for the bombing of the Ploesti (or Ploiesti) oil fields in Romania, (Operation Tidal Wave) of August 1943. Final part of a training film to brief U.S. Army Air Forces aircrews in preparation for their bombing raid on the Ploesti oil refineries in Romania during World War 2. Formation of bombers is seen flying toward oil derricks in the oil fields. Aerial views of the oil fields and refineries. Oil storage facilities. Closeup of oil workers at a drilling rig. German officers walking in snow, ostensibly seeking places to obtain oil to fuel their wartime operations. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and other Nazi officers examine a chart in Africa. German prisoners taken in North Africa. Large numbers of German prisoners walking across the desert. A flight of several German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter planes in formation. Italian Dictator, Benito Mussolini, walking with an entourage in an Italian colonial region of Africa. He climbs aboard an open rail car on a small gauge railway. Accompanied by others, the rail car is pushed along the track by Colonials in white garb. German Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, who commanded German forces attacking the Soviet Union in Operation Typhoon, is seen visiting a German base. Next, Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle has his hands on the fins of a bomb while posing with his flyers when underway in the Pacific, aboard the USS Hornet (CV-8) for their daring raid B-25 bombing raid on Tokyo, Japan. View of a B-25 taking off from the Hornet. An American B-17 flying fortress, bomber taking off for a daylight raid in Europe. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking on radio, saying "We believe the Nazis and fascists have asked for it. And they're going to get it." Oil storage tanks ablaze with heavy black smoke rising.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060463
American bomber aircraft smash Axis Oil Fields in Ploiesti Romania during Operation Tidal Wave

United States General Lewis Brereton speaking with crews of bombers of U.S. Ninth Air Force during World War 2. Soldiers plan and prepare for the destruction of the Ploiești oil refineries (or Ploesti) located in Romania. A map shows the plan of "Operation Tidal Wave." The B-24 Liberator aircraft based in Libya are readied and seen taking off and in formation on the way to the daylight attack of the Axis oil fields in Romania. Aerial views of U.S. Army Air Force B-24 aircraft in flight. View of Ploesti Oil Fields as bombers approach target. The refineries and the storage tanks are destroyed by U.S. bombing. Aerial view from bomber looking out over machine gun position during attack. Explosions on ground below. Aerial view of other B-24 aircraft in the sky during the attack, and on their way returning home.

Date: 1943, August 1
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040766
Aftermath of U.S. 15th Air Force bombing in Ploesti during World War II

Wreckage in and around Ploesti (Ploiesti), following air raids by U.S. 15th Air Force bombers in World War 2. Sign hanging down from bombed out building reads, in Romanian: "Coafor. Frizer" (Hairdresser. Barber). Thick Plume of smoke rises in background. A car passes the camera.Men work to clean up debris inside steel skeleton of a wrecked hangar-like building. From a rooftop, camera pans over various damaged buildings. The Teleajen River is visible in the background. Heavy black smoke billows from bomb strikes on an industrial site. Rubble fills the foreground. A church building stands (apparently undamaged) in the midst of fire and smoke. Vehicles pass a massive cloud of smoke rising from inside a fenced enclave. Fire and smoke billow from some sort of storage tank. Fire hoses seen pouring water on the scene. Suddenly a large burst of fire and smoke rises and then the scene is engulfed in black smoke. Firefighters using hoses on fires in an industrial complex. Smoke stacks and oil derrick seen.

Date: 1944, October
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054529
Romanians begin cleanup and repair of railroad and facilities in Ploesti, after bombing in World War II

Romanians commence cleanup after attacks by U.S. 15th Air Force bombers in Ploesti (Ploiesti) during World War 2. Workers shovel building debris from rails in front of a train station. A locomotive pulls a train into a platform on which the entire roof has been destroyed. A group of Romanian workers carrying shovels and other implements, walks along a section of track past destroyed structures.They work to straighten rails and remove portions of buildings and other debris from the tracks. One uses a cutting torch to release a huge piece of reinforced concrete, which is then raised up by a crane. Workers are busy all over the area in the cleanup activities. Several men inspect damage to a locomotive.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054532