Operation Tidal Wave was an air attack by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in Libya on nine oil refineries around Ploiești, Romania...

Look up tidal wave in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tidal wave may refer to: A tidal bore, which is a large movement of water formed by the funnelling...

Operation Tidal Wave II was a US-led coalition military operation beginning on or about 21 October 2015 against oil transport, refining and distribution...

shot down while bombing the Ploiești, Romania oil fields during Operation Tidal Wave and was a prisoner of war for over two months. He was awarded the...

low-altitude Allied bombing mission of oil refineries at Ploieşti, Romania, Operation Tidal Wave. For his actions during World War II he received the United States...

1941), it carried out daytime "precision bombing" attacks – such as Operation Tidal Wave against refineries in Romania in 1943. The last major strategic raid...

Ploiești, became a focal point for Allied bombing raids, notably during Operation Tidal Wave. The Soviet Red Army later occupied the Romanian oilfields in August...

United States Army Air Forces in the Philippines, Operation Tidal Wave; Operation Cobra; and Operation Market Garden. Brereton was one of the first military...

Operation Priboi (Russian: Операция «Прибой» – Operation "Tidal Wave") was the code name for the biggest Stalin-era Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic...

Army Air Force in WW2. He is best known for the role he played in Operation Tidal Wave, a low-level bombing mission to the oilfields of Ploiești, Romania...

Al-Shabaab members. 2 April From October 2015, the U.S.-led coalition in Operation Tidal Wave II made over 200 airstrikes against Islamic State oil wells, refineries...

five fighters. After Tidal Wave, further bombing operations were focused in the Mediterranean theatre and on preparations for Operation Overlord, the Allied...

Australian operations Operation Shader, name for similar British operations Operation Tidal Wave II, name of a suboperation against IS oil infrastructure "Islamic...

the U.S.-led intervention against ISIL called Operation Tidal Wave II (named after Operation Tidal Wave during World War II, a failed attempt to raid...

aerial bombardment. One of the most notable air bombardments was Operation Tidal Wave — the attack on the oil fields of Ploiești on 1 August 1943. Bucharest...

event where 53 USAAF aircraft and 660 aircrewmen were lost during Operation Tidal Wave Bus massacre, also known as Black Sunday, the 1975 clashes in Beirut...

military intervention against ISIL called Operation Tidal Wave II (named after the original Operation Tidal Wave during World War II, a failed attempt to...

Project, June 1942) and Operation Tidal Wave (1 August 1943) at a great loss, without producing any significant delay in operation or production. Soviet...

The bombing of Ploiești on 1 August 1943 (Operation Tidal Wave) was a far more serious affair. Tidal Wave heavily damaged four refineries and more lightly...

computer hardware market. On May 26, 1995, Bill Gates sent the "Internet Tidal Wave" memorandum to Microsoft executives. The memo described Netscape with...

later moved to the Pipera airfield. On 1 August, the USAAF launched Operation Tidal Wave, a low-level raid on the Ploiești refineries. The large bomber formation...

May: Muhammad VIII al-Amin installed as Bey of Tunisia 1 August: Operation Tidal Wave attacks Nazi oil refineries in Romania, from remote base at Benghazi...

Army Air Forces who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Operation Tidal Wave during World War II. Hughes was born in Alexandria, Louisiana, the...

industries. The term marine energy encompasses both wave power i.e. power from surface waves, and tidal power i.e. obtained from the kinetic energy of large...

total of 177 B-24s carried out the famous second attack on Ploiești (Operation Tidal Wave) on 1 August 1943. This was the B-24's most costly mission. In late...

Liberator bomber aircraft. His plane was downed over Romania during Operation Tidal Wave and he subsequently spent two years as a prisoner of war. He joined...

third place in 2005 and 2010. In cinema, several movies of the Romanian New Wave have achieved international acclaim. At the Cannes Film Festival, The Death...

refineries and ball-bearing factories. After taking heavy losses in Operation Tidal Wave and the Second Raid on Schweinfurt, the U.S. significantly scaled...

headquarters. The first Americans were captured in Romania following Operation Tidal Wave. The airmen were interned at first in the court of the Central Seminary...

mainland France beginning with D-Day on 6 June 1944 and operation Overlord, and then with operation Dragoon on 15 August 1944, leading to the Liberation...