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1941/1973

September 8, 1941:

September 8, 1973 9:07 pm PST/11:07pm CST:

Armand feeds Louis blood to heal him.

Lestat:September 8th... 1973.

Lestat: September 8th, 1973. It was 11:07 here. It would have been 9:07 in San Francisco. Armand called me. Were you there?

Louis: Yeah.

Lestat: Did you hurt yourself?

[theworldatwar]

US B-24 Liberators unload their deadly cargo as they press home the attack on German oil refineries and storage facilities during Operation Tidal Wave - Ploesti, Romania, 1st Aug 1943

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B-24 attacking Ploesti refinery 1943

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81 years ago today, B-24s in action over Ploesti as they attempt to knock out nine of Hitler’s refineries that help fuel the German war machine. ✈️

@JasonRBurt via X

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1 August 1943. Ploesti, Romania. "Hell's Wench," a B-24 badly damaged by ack-ack, led the 93rd Bombardment Group's attack on oil refineries.

@ron_eisele via X

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On this day in 1943, 177 American bombers hit the Nazi-controlled Ploesti oil fields of Romania. More than 100 planes are lost or damaged in the raid.

Read about the operation here and how the Allies learned from the disaster: militaryhistorynow.com/2023/06/05/the…

@MilHistNow via X

[usafphantom2]

1 August 1943. Operation Tidal Wave was an air attack by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in Libya on nine oil refineries around Ploiești, Romania.

@ron_eisele via X

[historyhalls]

Explore Operation Tidal Wave, an ambitious WWII American plan to bomb the Nazis' most important oil facility at Ploesti, and how it unraveled amidst a cascade of mishaps

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