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| Tango01 | 31 Aug 2020 10:17 p.m. PST |
… airmen. Offutt is working to ID some of the fallen "Staff Sgt. Vincent Politte held no illusions about the chances of surviving his World War II bomber crew's 23rd mission: a 2,400-mile suicide run, deep behind German lines, attacking a cluster of oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania, known as "Hitler's Gas Station." The war planners called it Operation Tidal Wave. Today, it is considered by many historians the most spectacular air raid of the war: dozens of bombers flying hundreds of miles just above the treetops, to rain 35 minutes of hellfire on a critical cog in the Nazi war machine. It was daring, and disastrous. One hundred seventy-eight of the twin-tailed B-24 Liberators took off from a rustic desert airstrip near Benghazi, Libya, early on the morning of Aug. 1, 1943. Fifty-four crashed or were shot down…" Main page
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| athun25 | 01 Sep 2020 5:11 a.m. PST |
As someone whose family has tended the grave of SSGT Andrew
McCrossan , LW gunner on B17 4231749, 20th sqd, 2nd Bmb. Group, 15th AF, since I was a little kid (almost 60 now!) just because we thought we should, I really appreciated that article. SSgt McCrossan was killed on March 18, 1944, and was buried by Yugoslavian Partisans, and was repatriated in 1947. So many young men are lost and will never be found. |
| Tango01 | 01 Sep 2020 12:08 p.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile)
I feel your pain…
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