Harold Glenn Knotts
MilitaryTook part in Operation Tidal Wave, the raid on Ploesti on 1 August 1943, flying in B-24 Liberator 42-40316, Snake Eyes.
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Units served with

- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force Twelfth Air Force Fifteenth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment

- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment

- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment

- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force Twelfth Air Force Fifteenth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft

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

- 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...
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Died |
5 November 1986 |
Revisions
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Sources
Ploesti Sortie Reports for the 98th Bomb Group.
http://ploesti.com/roster.pdf;
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40566632/harold-glenn-knotts
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / roster