The 483rd Bomb Group Archive

Mission

Mission 58

28 July 1944 · Ploesti oil refineries

Date: 28 July 1944
Target as printed: Ploesti, Romania oil refinery
Aircraft lost: none recorded
Sources: assoc-mission-summary (row 58)

Target

Ploesti oil refineries Ploiesti, Romania · oil · 44.941, 26.023

Photographs and loss sheets of this mission

As huge clouds of smoke billow up from the target, more bombs fall to add to the destruction at the Astra Romano Oil Refinery at Ploesti, Rumania during a mission on July 28, 1944 by planes of the 483rd Bombardment Group, 815th Bombardment Squadron (U.S. Air Force Number 112735AC) — As huge clouds of smoke billow up from the target, more bombs fall to add to the destruction at the Astra Romano Oil Refinery at Ploesti, Rumania during a mission on July 28, 1944 by planes of the 483rd Bombardment Group, 815th Bombardment Squadron (U.S. Air Force Number 112735AC) · 28 July 1944National Archives Catalog (RG 342-FH) · U.S. Air Force photograph 342-FH-3A26892-112735AC

A pillar of smoke reaches the height of these Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of MAAF after they had dropped their bombs on the oil refineries at Ploesti, Rumania on 28 July 44. Numerous flak bursts can be seen in the back ground, as the enemy — A pillar of smoke reaches the height of these Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of MAAF after they had dropped their bombs on the oil refineries at Ploesti, Rumania on 28 July 44. Numerous flak bursts can be seen in the back ground, as the enemy · 28 July 1944National Archives Catalog (RG 342-FH) · U.S. Air Force photograph 342-FH-3A26924-52909AC

The target on other days

Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of... — Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of...National Archives Catalog (RG 342-FH) · U.S. Air Force photograph 342-FH-3A26775A-25711AC

Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of... — Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of...National Archives Catalog (RG 342-FH) · U.S. Air Force photograph 342-FH-3A26934B-54248AC

Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of... — Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of...National Archives Catalog (RG 342-FH) · U.S. Air Force photograph 342-FH-3A26825A-53687AC

Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of... — Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of...National Archives Catalog (RG 342-FH) · U.S. Air Force photograph 342-FH-3A26946-A55225AC

Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of... — Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of...National Archives Catalog (RG 342-FH) · U.S. Air Force photograph 342-FH-3A26906A-C24640AC

Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of... — Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of...National Archives Catalog (RG 342-FH) · U.S. Air Force photograph 342-FH-3A26793A-24619AC

Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of... — Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of...National Archives Catalog (RG 342-FH) · U.S. Air Force photograph 342-FH-3A26809-3A26809

Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of... — Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of...National Archives Catalog (RG 342-FH) · U.S. Air Force photograph 342-FH-3A26941-55014AC

Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of... — Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of...National Archives Catalog (RG 342-FH) · U.S. Air Force photograph 342-FH-3A26845-A55233AC

Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of... — Ploesti, Rumania-Photo of...National Archives Catalog (RG 342-FH) · U.S. Air Force photograph 342-FH-3A26829-A52333AC

CAUSE AND EFFECT AT PLOESTI. May 5th 1944 raid of the oil refineries and railroad marshalling yards of the heavily defended city of Ploesti, Rumania, by Flying Fortress and Liberator bombers of the U.S. Army 15th Air Force. This is one fo the planes — CAUSE AND EFFECT AT PLOESTI. May 5th 1944 raid of the oil refineries and railroad marshalling yards of the heavily defended city of Ploesti, Rumania, by Flying Fortress and Liberator bombers of the U.S. Army 15th Air Force. This is one fo the planes · 5 May 1944National Archives Catalog (RG 342-FH) · U.S. Air Force photograph 342-FH-3A26794-51038AC

CAUSE AND EFFECT AT PLOESTI. May 5th 1944 raid of the oil refineries and railroad marshalling yards of the heavily defended city of Ploesti, Rumania, by Flying Fortress and Liberator bombers of the U.S. Army 15th Air Force. What seems like a darker — CAUSE AND EFFECT AT PLOESTI. May 5th 1944 raid of the oil refineries and railroad marshalling yards of the heavily defended city of Ploesti, Rumania, by Flying Fortress and Liberator bombers of the U.S. Army 15th Air Force. What seems like a darker · 5 May 1944National Archives Catalog (RG 342-FH) · U.S. Air Force photograph 342-FH-3A26920-51037AC

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