TIDAL WAVE: In the Cockpit for WWII’s Great Raid on Ploesti with Adam Makos
ONLINE On August 1, 1943, American B-24 Liberators flew one of the most daring and decorated missions in U.S. airpower history: Operation Tidal Wave, the low-level attack on the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania.
But what happened to the crews who were shot down and left for dead?
In this episode of CAF Warbird Tube, bestselling author Adam Makos discusses his new book, Tidal Wave, which follows the rookie 389th Bomb Group, whose crews produced the most stunning success of the raid—and its untold aftermath.
Makos straps you into the B-24 Chattanooga Choo Choo with Lt. Ernie Poulson, a 22-year-old Utah outdoorsman whose bomber crash-landed on the estate of Romanian Princess Catherine Caradja. The Americans had just bombed her country, yet the princess made an extraordinary decision to risk everything by helping them.
It’s a story of courage, survival, and unlikely alliances forged in one of WWII’s most legendary air campaigns.
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