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@reidcopeland9187

4 жыл бұрын

My dad Glenn Copeland

@reidcopeland9187

4 жыл бұрын

my dad was flight engineer on the b-24 his name was Glenn Copeland and he told me about how I'm the flight to plasti he was will you scared to death and he said you can see the flacco around and look like they were you could get out and walk on it and I sure miss dad

@scottyarish8674

3 жыл бұрын

Call

@freddy4672

3 жыл бұрын

@@reidcopeland9187 your dad was a hero, Thank God he lived to have a son who loved and honored him.

My Dad was the flight engineer on the B-24 (Daisy Mae) on this mission! He ultimately earned the Silver Star and Distinguished Flying Cross for this mission! He went on to earn another Distinguished Flying Cross for the missions he flew out of England over German territory! My brothers and I only found out about his bravery after he had passed away in 1994! His time in the Army Aircorp of 4+ years fighting made my 14 months in Vietnam a walk in the park compared to his service for this nation! A true Hero!

@reimi3183

Жыл бұрын

Yea and probably your dad killed my cousin

@donbox8038

Жыл бұрын

Criminal

@jgonzalez101

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you both for your Service to our Country. May he rest in peace. ❤️🇺🇸

@papadopp3870

Жыл бұрын

My Dad, too, won the DFC after the war for efforts at and beyond Ploesti. His 376th BG B-24 went down in Bulgaria following the 17 Aug 1944 Ploesti raid, the 2nd to last high altitude mission to Ploesti. The plane almost got them to partisan Yugoslavia but they had to bail short of crossing the Danube. The entire crew was interred at Shuman, Bulgaria, and were liberated by the Red Army a few months later. I’d like to think the footage in this doc was actually synced to the days listed but I have my doubts. Still the flak pictured appeared to be the type and the density the 15th Air Force encountered on missions to “Fortress Ploesti”.

@donbox8038

Жыл бұрын

@@papadopp3870 your father is a criminal .Make crime agains civil population!

My Dad was a B-24 pilot and made it to Victorville, Ca and was building up his hours to transition to a B-29. His first flight at Victorville was in the heat of summer and the air thin, as they were in the high desert. He said he used all the runway and barely made it into the air. At some point in his time in the B-24, they showed his flying group a film of the Ploesti oil field raid. After the film, he said no one spoke for a period of time. The atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, while he was at Victorville, and he never made it to the Pacific Theater, but he loved the B-24. He returned home to the farm in Mississippi and farmed for 60 years.

My cousin sadly was shot down and died on this mission. His bomber was “The Jenny.” I still have his death letter that was sent to his mom. She couldn’t bare having it in her possession so she gave it to my grandmother who gave it to me. Such a sad story he was only 19 when he died.

@lawrencejohanson5178

3 жыл бұрын

My second cousin of Langruth, Manitoba went down in 1942 along with four other Canadian airmen in a Halifax Bomber during a training mission near Ripon England, where they are all buried .They were to fly their first misson three days later.

@urbandeep5166

3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@VIDS2013

2 жыл бұрын

Very sad. So many families went through this loss during the war.

@ilie123petcan9

2 жыл бұрын

220 people they hagd arrested by roumanian and a lot of inocent people from Romania they have been killed by this so called heroes of usa

@Stefan_2003

Жыл бұрын

Very nice! I hope he and you're family roots in hell

My grandfather was a bombardier in one of the B-17's. His plane was shot down. He was captured by Romanian forces and held as a POW. After his release and for many years later he would receive letter from the Princess of Romania. She never forgot how brave those men were and made sure to thank them all she could. The greatest generation. Thanks for sharing the video. May we never forget.

@ThePantygun

Жыл бұрын

Communist crap. Only served russians.

@papadopp3870

Жыл бұрын

That was something that happened and surprised many of the airmen interred in Rumania. She must have been amazing.

@chillywater9455

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePantygun he was liberated by the Russians.

@ThePantygun

Жыл бұрын

@@chillywater9455 Most nazis were.

@mikegodwin9852

10 ай бұрын

My uncle flew on Boomerang and was shot down too.. he mentioned a Romania princess in the short story he finally wrote down later in his life about his service.. Harold Godwin was his name

My friend Cliff Norman was on this mission. I have photos of the pages of his diary he kept on the war. His entry about a mission to Ploesti. 8-18-44 Campini- Ploesti. Ship # 571 . 1st mission on enemy installation. Target oil refinery. Flak extremely heavy. Very rough, ship hit many times. Smoke rose to 21,000 feet above target. I miss you Mr Cliff, thank you for your service.

@pentershayden936

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir for the information.

@maybee...

3 жыл бұрын

James Caldwell, I hope this message find you well. My grandfather was killed on August 1, 1943 over the Ploesti Oil fields during Operation Tidal Wave, he was a belly gunner that went down with the plane, the rest of the crew made it out of the plane and parachuted down into enemy hands, but grandfather was trapped, he fought up until it was over for him. He is buried in Normandy. Thank you for sharing your memory.

@adrianturcitu4770

3 жыл бұрын

I am a Romanian citisen and I know from me mather about this bombardaments There were a 2 distinct bombardament The first was in august 1943 An temerary idea but a total echec A fountain pen from a falled american pilot it is in me colection now It is a rarlly Sheafferd with GLASS POINT The second bomardament, was in julie 1944, was an real desaster for ower people because the country of Romania was among 2 part atacks From north came Vctoriously Red army ( VERY , VERY WILD MEN ) in russian leanguage Pobednaia KRASNAIA Armya and from south amarican atacks Realy, I know from my muther becaus me father was in URSS , in war, that american bombers came fron soutt bombing especialy RAILWAYS, from Bucarest, Ploiesti, Ramnicu Satat, BUZAU, Focsani, Tecuci, Barlad, Vaslui *IASSY* The railways was FULL WITH TRAINS OF *REFUGIATS*, ONLY children, woman and old man ( men werE retained to fight with wild soviet red army) Was the cruel masacre in history of ower country, because they killed only children, thousand and thousand of children, youngs women with childrens in his arms and old men and women, thousand and thousand and thousand Me muther, who lived in this part of cauntry see with his eyes this masacres

@kaptainkaos1202

3 жыл бұрын

@@adrianturcitu4770 as a former US military member you can rest assure the US aviators the didn’t knowingly bomb refugees. It was stressed from day 1 we don’t harm non combatants. I’m sorry for your country’s loss.

@adrianturcitu4770

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaptainkaos1202 Noooo ! In an station trains, the refugees left the trains and runs in a forest near station trains at the sound of alarm But in the midle day, at an hight of 6000 meters, americans pilots see very clear situations, no errors Civilians was target They left trains and drop bombs over forest, so, kiled hundreds of children and romanians women I pray God to be mercifull with these inocentt souls At the ground,poland spies gives clear informations about civilians American planes was in Soviet Union, Ukraine, to POLTAVA CITY For mo informations about this planes you can see on KZread, a documentary called OPERATION TITANIC The house of my ucle from Focsani is clear recorded in this documentary No problem, this is history,I leave now in USA and I love America Desde sur del EE UU un saludo !

My Dad was in one of those B-24's that got shot up too badly to return to base. He parachuted down and was captured and taken to Stalag Luft 3 I believe. He told me he never experienced unprofessional treatment from the guards there, although some guys just went crazy and made a run for the fence and were shot. It's hard to believe the balls and determination our soldiers had.

My father was a B17 pilot he never really talked about it. I can remember when he would bring it up I would be so mesmerized by his words. One story in particular is B17 weren't pressurized and max altitude was roughly 18,000 feet he said it was really cold & sometimes the machine gun operators in the gun turrets would forget to put there gloves on and there hands would freeze on the handles, other crew men would urinate on their hands so they could free them from the handles. He was a very young 20 year's old he told me every time he crawled into that pilot seat he wasn't ever sure if was going to make it back. Over 48,000 men died in B17s

@davegeisler7802

2 жыл бұрын

I salute your Father 🇺🇸👍 the reason the Vets never talked about the War was simple. They saw things no Men should see.😢

So proud of my Hero Grandfather~ 1Lt. 51 Bombing missions with the 15th. He died at 56 of a heart attack in 1976. I wish I could have heard his stories of Ploesti.

@adrianturcitu4770

3 жыл бұрын

For the first mission, august 1943 I said God bless america ! For second mission i can say that it was an realy criminal atack The planes unit stationary in URSS, to *POLAVA town* Roumania country was in an very, very. dificult situation To nord of YASSY germans and romanian troops try to stop avans of very, very *WILDS MEN*, soviet soldiers KAZACKS, or ZAPOJANS Of course.ower leader cast an ordin for civilians to take the train and to leave in Craiova region in REFUGIU So, the railway was empty of trains full of *CHILDREN, WOMEN WITH CHILDREN IN HIS ARMS and OLD MEN and WOMEN* ( man was retain to help the batle agains the wild zaporojans ) The americans escadriles come in midle day, in very hight level and *DROPED THE BOMBS OVER THE CHILDREN TRAINS* but only over this trains from Bucarest to Iassy Wow, was *THE CRUEL AND CRIMINAL ATACK*in history of me cauntry, ROMANIA THOUSAND and THOUSEND and THOUSAND OF CHILDREN WAS KILLED* Me father in these time was in Odessa atack, me mather, me sister was at south of YASSY an see the massacre Esquadrel cames from URSS to BUCURESTI, PLOESTI, BUZAU, RAMNICU SARAT, FOCSANI TECUCI, VASLUI finaly IASSY American planes droped over the Iassy town lanterns, an barrel with PHOSFOR and parachusters, to iluminate the town so soviet to destroi it In the bigist batlle to STANCA ROZNOVANU american planes bombed romanian trups An don*t forget, you frends, soviet wish to drop atomic bombs over owers heads in 1962 and after

@ionutciobotaru7341

2 жыл бұрын

Your grandfather is a war criminal because bombing my country

My father, William Warren Gooch, was part of Operation Tidal Wave. He said they crash landed in Malta, after the mission. The holes in the plane were so large, the crew walked through them exiting the airplane. Wish I knew the name of his plane in this mission. He was shot down five times durning WWII, and the only one to survive three. Not long after Ploiesti, he was captured as a POW, in a subsequent crash. He was in seven or eight different prison camps throughout the war. You can read his diary by googling Diary of a POW in Italy and Germany. I’m trying to buy it, or have it returned to my family. The person who bought it off of eBay isn’t ready to part with it yet, though hopefully, someday he will! Grateful that he sent me a copy of it. Well written.

@ionutciobotaru7341

2 жыл бұрын

He is a war criminal because during this bombing killed Manu civil romanians

The Ploesti air attack was one o the most brutal attacks in the war...Those dudes had balls!!! God bless them all!!

@ThePantygun

Жыл бұрын

Master Poo, not God.

Dad was copilot of “Flying Patches” and was interned in Istanbul after second force down. He took movie camera with him and have movies of flak exploding on Ploesti raid.

What a daring mission. These guys had steel nerves! Kind of reminds me of my dad Zeno Henderson, who flew B-17s out of Lavenham, England.

My dad was was a crew chief on several B-24's out of Bari and Oran. He said his guys took cornstalks out the bomb bay doors when they got back from Ploesti.

My dad piloted a B-24 "Bottoms Up" over Ploiesti 3 missions. Two in May, 1944 and one in July, 1944. His plane was shot up over the July mission and he took shrapnel up through his seat and into his fanny and backs of his legs. He yelled to the crew to prepare to jump out, but his bombardier, Bob McPhall panicked and jumped prematurely landing and being captured as a POW. Dad was able to nurse the plane back to Spinazzola, Italy. He remained in the Air Force and was assigned to Greece and then Oberphaffenhoffen, Germany where mom and I joined him until 1950 when we all returned to the States. Dad retired in 1969.

@ionutciobotaru7341

2 жыл бұрын

He is a war criminal

One of the best documentaries of the air war.

@timsawyer9034

Жыл бұрын

5 Medal of honors were given out from this raid, yet you only hear about Kane and Johnson's squads. Also a lot of mis-information.

Passage to Valhalla by Bill Philly is a great book.He was a nose gunner in a B24 and was shot down and captured by the Romanians.Met him in early 90s at an air show.Great Guy.👍

My father was the pilot of "Southern Comfort" on the 8/1/43 low-level raid. It was the defining day of his life.

@timothygoldman13

8 жыл бұрын

I had the opportunity to listen and meet bomber crews while attending Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB in February 1987. Maybe your dad was one?

@MrWahooknows

8 жыл бұрын

My father died in 1966. Buried in Arlington.

@elsavillegas551

7 жыл бұрын

Timothy Goldman

@elsavillegas551

7 жыл бұрын

Robert Austin

@oldyellerschannel4676

5 жыл бұрын

I wish I could find out more about my uncle, but I didn't even know he was a part of this mission, until my father told me. All I know is that he was a top gunner flying in B-17 Flying Fortresses, and was based in Southern Italy.

Those aircrews were real men going on a suicide mission like this one. God Bless all of their brave souls. Everything that could go wrong seemingly did go wrong on Tidalwave. This was the most brutal and bloodiest mission of WWII. The machine gunners were in an absolute fight to the death against the German cannons

I knew an old guy who had been on the raids in a B-24. It was his job to spice shot-out controls cables (ailerons, elevator and rudder) while in flight. Many times they were down to one intact cable for a control surface. The other redundant cables were shot through. He would frantically splice a cable together, hoping to get it done, before the one good one was also shot out (causing the pilots to lose control of the ailerons, or rudder, or elevator).

My dad was B-24 pilot shot down during a raid on Ploiesti oil fields He was MIA escaped and evaded as well as worked with and aided the underground getting back to friendly allied lines

Could have mentioned LTC Addison Baker and Maj John Jerstad in the B24 "HELL'S WENCH" of the 328th Bomb Squadron of the 93rd Bomb Group, who led their planes, with the cockpit on fire, to the target before cartwheeling into a field. They both were awarded the MOH for their action, in the raid. Pilot/Co-Pilot of the same aircraft.

Bless your heart for making these available to see... History that should NEVER, EVER BE FORGOTTEN..!!!!!!! 🎸☠🎸

my grand father was a pilot on the iar 81 (a romanian plane). The air raid wasn t succesfull and didn t stop the production of oil. It was a disaster for the american forces . Great video !

My cousin was killed in July 1944 raid over the fields. His Fortress crashed into Adriatic! 19 yrs old Tech Sgt!

I enjoy this better then anything on tv

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

Not for the people from Ploiesti. Why they didn`t show the innocent dead people? My then 13 year old oncle was killed this day in Ploiesti by a bomb...

My great grandfather was there. He was part of the 763rd bombardment squadron and was awarded the Air medal

@ThePantygun

Жыл бұрын

An idiot fighting for communistic "ideals".

My Dad Capt. J S Solomon flew early Ploesti. Reading Alexandru Trentea's post: that was tough on everyone involved, nevertheless, the Natzi's had to be put down! It took a lot of courage for American's to do what had to be done. Thank God for the Patriots!

The cost in men and material was high. This mission was one of the costliest for the USAAF in the European Theater, with 53 aircraft and 660 air crewmen lost. It was proportionally the most costly major Allied air raid of the war and its date was later referred to as "Black Sunday". Sadly, most of the damage was repaired within weeks, after which the net output of fuel was greater than before the raid. The Enemy Oil Committee appraisal of Ploiești bomb damage indicated "...no curtailment of overall product output..." as many of the refineries had been operating previously below maximum capacity. This begs the question of whether this mission was necessary or warranted.

@lostinpa-dadenduro7555

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I know what you mean but if were there and planning targets we probably would have gone for it too. Too big a target to not try.

@lopezmt

4 жыл бұрын

LostInPA - I wholeheartedly agree. Nothing tried, nothing gained. I remember a quote from Wayne Gretzky, "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

@KB4QAA

3 жыл бұрын

Lop: The target was certainly worth attacking. However the raid was improperly conceived and executed. It was a plan for disaster. The two commanders should have been court martialed for accepting the mission and allowing it to be flown as planned.

@zefallafez

2 жыл бұрын

How much oil was destroyed that was no longer available? What impact did that make to the German ground forces and air force in that time span? How much material had to be diverted to repair the refineries? Germany increased its war production by a factor of three in spite of US and British strategic bombing. The US war production meanwhile increased thirty times. would you say strategic bombing was a failure because Germany’s war production increased?

@JCinerea

2 жыл бұрын

It started to hurt the Nazis very badly when we targeted their oil and transportation.

Thea's men were some of the bravest in the war my friends dad was one of them they were really something to be proud of

Excellent! The second part was the best though. Thanks for posting

@vmfa5333

4 жыл бұрын

They were definitely the Greatest Generation. Heroes all. God bless them and all the veterans before and after. Semper Fidelis.

My old boss was a gunner on one of those bombers. He was a great guy.

@ParisLondonRoma

9 жыл бұрын

George Gallup Guy from my town flew in that mission. He was a music teacher before becoming a 25 yr old bomber pilot. It was mostly kids on these planes.

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

It was my oncle, the brother of my father. I have a picture of him. My father told me that he did not manage to hide in bunker in time and he was killed by a bomb on our street in Ploiesti. For me, this people was the morder of my oncle.

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

That`not funny. If someone from your family died there, you would not make any jokes about it.

@82luft49

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mini3005news no you're right, it's not funny, but let's face it, he was on the wrong side.

@ferrallderrall6588

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mini3005news eeh nzi fuk ya?he had to go don't yu think

Yeah, I worked with a guy who went to Ploesti five times. He said that he could honestly say that he wasn't frightened, just fascinated by all the stuff going on and the fighters chasing each other around. Then - when he was flying B-29's over Korea - he was married and had kids - and he said he was duded up in all the flak vests and helmets. He had Alzheimer's last I saw him, maybe 20 years ago. He's got to be gone now. God Bless You Joe. .

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

My then 13 year old oncle was killed this day in Ploiesti by a bomb...

@BobSmith-dk8nw

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mini3005news I'm sorry to hear about your uncle. One thing about being from the States is we didn't get bombed ... mostly. The Japanese were sending over thousands of ballon bombs on the Jet Stream to cause forest fires but only a few unlucky people got killed. Of my relatives, no one got killed but it was mostly the ones in uniform that were in danger. My father lost a friend of his from school. My Dad had been drafted and was in the Marines but while a lot of the people from his boot camp platoon went to Tarawa he was just on sentry duty. He got a letter from his friend, who was in the 106th Infantry Division, mailed from London, he wrote back and two weeks later had his letter returned marked "Deceased". His friend was killed in the Battle of the Bulge. .

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. It was my oncle, the brother of my father. I have a picture of him. My father told me that he did not manage to hide in bunker in time and he was killed by a bomb on our street in Ploiesti.

@BobSmith-dk8nw

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mini3005news Yes. That was a horrible war and so many died. I'm glad you have a picture to remember him by. .

ground crews were such heroes also..long hours..devotion to craft and crew..may they all RIP..

My Dad was a 484th Torretta Flyer and did his 50 missions in 1944, in just several months. In 1943 was even more deadly. His group bombed Ploesti, and other areas of Europe. He said the worst flak and fear came from Wiener Neustadt. When he was there an American German sympathizer was setting off bombs on take off. He was eventually caught, given a quick trial and executed.

@williamhogan4031

5 жыл бұрын

that is a fascinating add on...good to know/hear about it...

@1racemate

5 жыл бұрын

my uncle was one of men he love it

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

Why they didn`t show the innocent dead people? My then 13 year old oncle was killed this day in Ploiesti by a bomb...

@scottrobinson2286

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mini3005news he was probably a Nazi cadet.

@mediocresetup

4 жыл бұрын

@@scottrobinson2286 The Romanians never received aid when stalin and hitler began dividing the country, they tried to avoid the war, but got screwed over by all sides. The western allies declined all support when the ribbentrop molotov pact happened. The romanians entered the war, out of necessity and after a forced change in leadership due to the circumstances. At the time the germans were the best bet to get back territory from the hungarians(who were also commiting war crimes when they crossed the border) and russians. After being abandoned at the beginning of the war they also got abandoned after the war to stalin and his war crimes so fuck off with that ignorant statement. The romanians and especially those in the army hated both the germans and russians all the same. At least the civilians from what i've heard were treated better by the german army and i am not talking about ss.

I'm from Ploiesti. My grandfather, who worked at one of the oil refineries as a driver on a tanker truck, told me how he saw American aircraft bombers hit by the flack or shot down by Romanian or German air fighter, falling near his house which was close to the refinery. He also saw some captured American prisoners being treated humanely, without being brutalized. They were very young, smoking and waiting in a truck to be taken to the camp in Timis, in the mountains. What is not shown in the film is the bombing of inhabited areas of the city, in which hundreds of innocent people, most of them elderly, women and children, lost their lives. The second film presented was one of propaganda. The production of the refineries in Ploiesti was never complete stopped. Operation Tidal Wave was a failure of American aviation because many of the planes were shot down (53 of 177), others severely damaged, and hundreds of American aviators died (440) or were taken prisoner (220), being released after August 23, 1944. A few months after that Tidal Wave attack the refineries installations were completely rebuilt, just one refinery, Columbia Aquila, being severe damaged, others not hit at all! Please find the page 19/25 on the link: www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/B1870/B1870-0517-0541%20Item%208C.pdf.

@HanzTheODST

3 жыл бұрын

My great grandfather was a gunner in a B-24, his plane nearly got shot down and they had to crash land, 2 of them died, his leg nearly got torn off by a flak gun, but he lived

@equartos

2 жыл бұрын

completely you are right....

This is incredible brave men thanks for the footage

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

Why they didn`t show the innocent dead people? My then 13 year old oncl was killed this day in Ploiesti by a bomb...

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

If someone from your family died there, you would not make any jokes about it.

second segment narrated by Ronald Reagan, voice is distinctive.

@themanfromcabowabo1559

3 жыл бұрын

I’ll be damned. You’re right, I wouldn’t have put that together. Thx.

@bartbutkis

2 жыл бұрын

Yep! That's how that brave soul served during WWII. Never left the continental US.

@billsmith9711

2 жыл бұрын

@@bartbutkis - he was over 30 years old, married, volunteered and did as he was ordered. like my dad did as an electrical engineer... did as he was ordered in the pacific. shut the hell up.

I live in West Bengal India. my aunts lives in Garbeta Mednipur West Bengal India. There are two abonded air ports in Garbeta and Mednipur one is situated in Pairadoba and Second is situated in Digri. I visited those airports by my motorcycle those airports totally covered by jungale and I was amazed that how those brave pilots and soilders came from USA to Mednipur West Bengal during world war two by B24 LIBRETOR directly . I think spirit of those respected pilots and soilders are still roaming. Great Great respect from West Bengal (INDIA) of those pilots. 🖒🖒🖒🖒

Over 600 Allied airmen shot down over Nazi-occupied Serbia by the Nazis, Croatian Ustashe and Bosnian Muslim Handzars were rescued by Draza Mihajlovic's Serbian Chetniks for which Mihajlovic received the Legion of Merit posthumously. They were later flown out of an improvised and newly-constructed secret airfield in central Serbia. This was the greatest rescue operation undertaken behind enemy lines known as Operation Halyard.

@garylamar6781

10 күн бұрын

My dad was a B-24 pilot shot down and was MIA and worked with the underground to escape and evade

How about some mention of two other Medal of Honor recipients (postumously) of the Aug 1 1943 Ploesti Raid?........from the 93rd Bombardment Group/328th Bombardment squadron flying in B-24 "HELL'S WENCH"....Lt Col Addison Baker and Major John Jestad; with cockpit in flames, pilot and co-pilot lead their group to their target and released their bombs before finally cartwheeling into a field.

@MrWahooknows

7 жыл бұрын

Good call, sir. Honor to them.

@donaldgrant9067

5 жыл бұрын

It is simple. Because this is a propaganda film. They ain't going to tell you that the mission was a failure and a complete mess. They also ain't going to tell you that the oil field was back up and running in a week or 2.

@H43339

4 жыл бұрын

@@donaldgrant9067 it was War the oil field needed to be taken out and Brave Men Died Trying !!!

@donaldgrant9067

4 жыл бұрын

@@H43339 Hell I think it would make a great movie. Yes the men who went were brave and deserve a medal. It's the leaders and planners that need to go on the mission or at least, if it fails, be shot for it. I'm tired of men dieing and nothing happen to the shit ass who decided to do it walks away. Hell I'll even take shooting them in the left knee cap so they remember their screw up.

My Grand-Uncle was Harold Korger, Col. Kane's Bombardier, on the "Big Operator". Quite an amazing guy!

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

Why they didn`t show the innocent dead people? My then 13 year old oncle was killed this day in Ploiesti by a bomb...

@billyc9707

3 жыл бұрын

Mini the same reason you don't hear about the atrocities they committed with the Germans in russia

This was the biggest loss the US faced in the entire war, followed soon by the biggest loss the P-38s have experienced. My great granfather captured a downed american fighter pilot on his farm and kept him hidden in his house for months before being forced to turn him over to the romanian officals.

I recognize that voice! That's Ronald Reagan! He sure did a lot of films during the war.

@danr5105

6 жыл бұрын

I believe the second narrator could be Ronnie,

@reallyhappenings5597

5 жыл бұрын

He deployed to Burbank 😄

@bobbaisden1685

5 жыл бұрын

@@jacktattis143 Better men than those who bash them

@bobbaisden1685

5 жыл бұрын

@@jacktattis143 I already did. I grew up watching them.

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

Why they didn`t show the innocent dead people? My then 13 year old oncle was killed this day in Ploiesti by a bomb...

Heroic efforts..

My uncle flew [was the pilot] on these raids...Lt Col Ralph Doty.

Unfortunately The Americans payed a heavy price for bombing Ploesti.

@mihai69stoian

5 жыл бұрын

Ronald Higgins Very good price,Romania have strong artilery defence on Ploiesti fom German army,so go home ..

@frankcorner8716

4 жыл бұрын

Ronald Higgins yes and the planners as usual did not know what they were doing. All those boys lost from planning. They would have done better with no planning. We had a plane called a mosquito that was specially designed for such a raid. The worst possible plane to get be used on such a raid was a B24. We would have done better if there were no planners

@davidvance6367

4 жыл бұрын

1st raid, no fighter protection. That was super stupid

@davidvance6367

4 жыл бұрын

Goose Tater, Your the silly ignorant troll. You know nothing of WW2 command decisions. The Germans blasted the American bombers slap out of the sky with their F. W. 190's Your the troll. You think you know who to label a troll because you think you're more intelligent. If those Nazi's had those super weapons a year earlier. You definitely wouldn't be here running your yap about how intelligent you are. TRUMP is GOD !

@pentershayden936

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidvance6367 There were no long range fighters that time.

B-24 was a cool-looking bomber!

My grandfather was the co-pilot on a B-24 the (Stork) during these bombing missions

Love the show

great video! thanks for posting.

Under appreciated. Tuff mission ..

My Dad was a Torretta Flier in 1944, it was the 484th in Italy. He flew his 50 missions, actually 37 but some counted double because of the danger. His plane was the Ol' 45. a B-24, he was the oldest on the plane at almost 29. probably the last to pass at 92 in 2008. His plane bombed Ploesti and many other countries besides Rumania. He said the scariest mission was the German town of Wienerneustadt, flak for many minutes. History shows that the Nazis were very effective in recovering from all the bombs that were dropped at Ploesti. His plane was shot down a few months after he left, not sure about survivors. He was only based in Torretta a few months, came back to America and his last year in the Army Air Corps was easy, he was a tech sergeant and his only job was handing out weekend passes in Madison, WI to various recruits. Most of you know there was not the official Air Force then. His most interesting story was there was a German American but a nazi sympathizer who was making bombs to blow up planes on take off. He was caught and was given a short trial and was executed by firing squad. That fact is probably not written in any book about the war. I lost my only uncle, my mother's brother, on a B-17 over Europe, ironically there were both radio operators, and born a few days apart. My uncle graduated high school at 14 and a half, I have often wondered what kind of life he could have had if he had survuved. My Dad only finished nintth grade but he was the wisest man I will ever know.

A documentery on the ploiesti raid here Air Combat - B-24 Liberators over Ploisti (Heb Subs)

My grandad was involved in that operation.B-24 liberator....

Salute to all the heroes that made all this possible to stop the German war machine Thank God we had true American patriots back then Unfortunately they don't exist anymore but I hope we can keep this great country alive and great again

"Heine Helmets"!!!!!! Oh NOOOOOOOOO...I have not heard that one before.

Excelente...documental..!!!

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

Why they didn`t show the innocent dead people? My then 13 year old oncle was killed this day in Ploiesti by a bomb...

@jorgeeduardoblanco4973

4 жыл бұрын

Disculpame...cuando decia que el material era excelente, estoy hablando en cuanto a la grabacion.....y no a las consecuencias que producian estos raid ..que por cierto eran para provocar muerte y destruccion, ...cosa que repudio totalmente...y otra cosa que te digo...que de los cuatro hijos varones que tengo...uno tiene tu misma edad...13...añitos, entonces no puedo apoyar....toda esta intolerante guerra...

We stand on the shoulders of Giants.

5:27-5:40 holy chit! They are flying that low with freaking B-24s! :o

Omg! It's full of heroes around here. :))

My dad was a B24 tailgunner out of Spinazola Italy in 1945

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

My then 13 year old oncle was killed this day in Ploiesti by a bomb...

US Army Air Force Bombing Raids against Ploesti oil fields in Romania in 1943-44. Historic note, These Air Raids also included the Bombing of Auschwitz Labor Camp.

My interest is WWII started over 50 years ago. I can remember as a 4 year old some kid wrote "Okinawa" on his fort (not that I knew what it meant. I can remember the first time I read about this raid. As the story progressed I kept thinking "something is wrong here, a great number of losses". As a 13 year old I had not yet learned how badly things can go.

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

My then 13 year old okel was killed this day in Ploiesti by a bomb...

Ploiești was roughly 110,000 inhabitants in the eve of the 2nd WW. Only 9,000 (nine thousand) were still in the city by the end of the war, and out of them about 3,000 were spending the night in town. (source: Lucian Vasile, Orașul sacrificat, 2014).

Ronald Reagan narration, far as I can tell. Voice, style, painting a big picture where events may have been fudged to fit.

Luftwaffe had except of many flak batteries for high altitude bombers ,about 300 me-109 fighters to protect those precious for their war effort oil-fields (the only oil fields that nazis had and after 1944 that soviets invaded this area, nazis had only synthetic oil factories!) So heavy loses were very natural ,for all operations ! Soviet air force bombed Ploesti too ,as it was natural !

Lowest production was 25% at Ploesti during the end of WWII.

The narrator sounds like Jack Webb. I loved how they sneaked in the animation part.

It's 'Ploiești' , not 'Ploesti'

@winterffly8390

4 жыл бұрын

It was spelled as "Ploești" back then.

@irinabranoiu

3 жыл бұрын

Actually the 'I' it's pronounced. I'm from Ploieşti

@irinabranoiu

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobmalack481 both i's are pronounced. I think you need to learn more history.

@irinabranoiu

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/pZh82aevod3Vd84.html - check the pronunciation here

@adrianturcitu4770

3 жыл бұрын

@Justice Boofer I am a romanian Corectly is *PLO -ESHTY*

Both sides Americans and Romanians were tight in fights...ferocious...

A great raid but unfortunately, one of the failures of the second world war. Still, the Americans did their best as many allied efforts did.

@bradleycampbell5933

8 жыл бұрын

+marcjboy1 well we know it worked. we can tell by how starved for fuel the nazi defenders were. we sure didnt run into any Soviet bombers trying to shut down this vital oil supply resource. but go ahead and believe your fantasies

@TheRCristian85

6 жыл бұрын

How many American planes whas smackt in head by IAR-Romanian plane remember that 24-3 ration? :)

@kamikazeyamamoto4545

5 жыл бұрын

I have a good friend whose father flew with the "Liberandoes" during that first and only low level attack on Ploesti. My late father trained with actor Jimmy Stewart before serving in a 15thAF B-24 unit. His group flew regular missions against Ploesti almost daily.

@oldyellerschannel4676

5 жыл бұрын

So forcing the Germans to rebuild everything we destroyed was a failure? My uncle was a part of these raids, and they knew they "were keeping the Germans busy"... Maybe you think the original raids failed, although I can't understand why, but they continued to bomb the fields, forcing German manpower to do what they could to rebuild, when they could have used that manpower elsewhere. That is not a fail, it is a WIN.

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

@Old Yeller Why they didn`t show the innocent dead people? My then 13 year old oncle was killed this day in Ploiesti by a bomb...

The world's first oil refinery...

There is an historical event of "conquering air superiority" by the soviet AF on their Eastern Front... Which is matching this raid's timing precisely. Just coincidence? I'm not saying about the other facts of that period (1943), which can be characterized as "crucial moment", the beginning of Nazi's failure of the entire war... so, was that raid all that "failure", as many are saying here in comments?

Proud to be American

@ThePantygun

Жыл бұрын

Communistic heroes.

Back in the 1950's we knew a man and member of our church who was one of the pilots in that raid.....Was about 16 or 17 and too young to really understand the significance of that event.

the Colonel getting all the credit was the one that screwed up the whole raid by making the wrong turn later became a general tried to have another lead pilot court marshaled and put the blame on him typical military the higher the rank the less chance of feeling the heat when you screw up

Very interesting names

Well done! We will always owe these heroes our gratitude and only hope to pay it forward. Ronald Reagan speaking of "We" sort of bothered me, as he never saw a moment of action; never risked his own neck.

@LeoA2600

Жыл бұрын

He's the narrator so there's nothing wrong about that. And he was quite busy supporting the war effort in the manner that the Pentagon deemed him most valuable in thanks to his acting career and poor vision, helping create hundreds of films documenting the war, training films for servicemen, etc.

If you travel to Ploiesti today there is still a heavy oil scent around the city as the soil was soaked with the damned oily thing.

@frankcorner8716

4 жыл бұрын

It is an oily thing and would smell that way anyway had nothing to do with any raid.

B-24's instead of B-17's?

Kane was from Dayton Texas.

Grandmother lost a brother on these raids Every crewman on the plane were from diferent crews intresting story to say the least

Sounds like Ronald Raegan narrating.

That’s a good documentary, wasn’t that Ronald Regan speaking? N

But, I think there is a mistake in the video: they show from min.17 Lockeed P38 Lightning, but I know that the only type of bombers involved were B24.

@eltsennestle998

6 жыл бұрын

Listen to the audio.

@oldyellerschannel4676

5 жыл бұрын

That's not true. My uncle flew in a B-17 Flying Fortresses, and was based in Southern Italy around this time. They used B-17's in the beginning, and later switched to B-24's. I wish I knew more, but it wasn't something I ever heard him talk about. Maybe WATCH and LISTEN to the video, or here's an idea, READ a BOOK.

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

@@oldyellerschannel4676 Why they didn`t show the innocent dead people? My then 13 year old okel was killed this day in Ploiesti by a bomb...

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

@Goose Tater Maybe you are a troll.

Here's your example

WHY ISN'T THERE ANYTHING NEW ABOUT THE B-24S ON KZread?!?!?!?

53 Liberators lost, 600 dead and wounded.

@kimberlywilliams7543

6 жыл бұрын

But the Germans had no fuel to fight with or aviation fuel to defend German cities.

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

Why they didn`t show the innocent dead people? My then 13 year old oncle was killed this day in Ploiesti by a bomb...

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

For me, this people was the morder of my oncle.

@frankcorner8716

4 жыл бұрын

Goose Tater you seem to forget that it was the Russians that defeated the German army not the Americans.

@frankcorner8716

4 жыл бұрын

4shacks1house but if you were to read Albert Speer’s Inside the third Reich you will see that our planners were about as dumb as anyone can get. Albert points out that bombing tank, airplane, ballbearing factories was a total waist of time. All we had to do was bomb oil refineries which are hard to hide and you have no fuel to drive tanks, planes, U boats etc and it took us till 1944 to do it. Amazing it really does not take brilliant minds to figure that out?

My grandpa Richard crippen 389th BG left waist gunner staff Sargent. Was here and was captured here

I from Romania

@vteckikdinyoo

6 жыл бұрын

Corina Bulearca hai ca leam dato bine americanilor astora .

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

Why they didn`t show the innocent dead people? My then 13 year old oncle was killed this day in Ploiesti by a bomb...

@Mini3005news

4 жыл бұрын

It was my oncle, the brother of my father. I have a picture of him. My father told me that he did not manage to hide in bunker in time and he was killed by a bomb on our street in Ploiesti. For me, this people was the morder of my oncle.

And the "Lady Be Good" didnt make it!

My grand father was a pilot of an IAR-80😌

Is the Narrator Sgt. Friday from Dragnet??

Yes, we give thanks to the boys who flew in these airplanes to bomb the crap out of Germany and its interests. Good film. Thanks for posting.

My Dad kept the P-38 running.....it would take a hell of a lot of guts to fly a mission with belly tanks and heavy bombs to dive-bomb Ploesti in daylight........right on the deck most of the way in and then the pop up to target and drop.

What has this got to do with the Bellamy Salute?

Super jet B-24

What age where the aircrews? 21…27

we owe them our freedom

@ThePantygun

Жыл бұрын

On the contrary. Fighting for communism is worse than standing with its enemies.