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Operation Tidal Wave: heroic but ineffective
A B-24 Liberator over the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania, after it dropped its bombs. Although the attack cost the Army Air Forces about 30 percent of the attacking aircraft and crewmembers, the damaged oil refineries were back in service three months later. (Courtesy Photo)

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