UPL 15214

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The B-24D - 42-40316 - "Snake Eyes" - Flew on the Ploesti oil refinery raid. Crash landed, Sicily. - 1 KIA - 2 WIA. Aug 1, 1943.

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Units

Ninth Air Force

• Air Force: Ninth Air Force
• Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-40316

• Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
• Nicknames: - Snake Eyes
• Unit: 98th Bomb Group 345th Bomb Squadron

Mission

Operation Tidal Wave

• Date: 1 August 1943
• Official Description: 177 B-24’s, of IX Bomber Command (including Heavy Bombers on loan from Eighth AF) are dispatched to bomb oil refineries at Ploesti and nearby Campina. The operation (TIDALWAVE) is costly, 54 planes and 532 airmen being lost, but damage to the targets...