About: Operation Tidal Wave   Goto Sponge  NotDistinct  Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : platform.yourdatastories.eu:8890 associated with source document(s)

Operation Tidal Wave was an air attack by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in Libya and Southern Italy on nine oil refineries around Ploiești, Romania on 1 August 1943, during World War II. It was a strategic bombing mission and part of the "oil campaign" to deny petroleum-based fuel to the Axis.

AttributesValues
rdfs:comment
  • Operation Tidal Wave was an air attack by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in Libya and Southern Italy on nine oil refineries around Ploiești, Romania on 1 August 1943, during World War II. It was a strategic bombing mission and part of the "oil campaign" to deny petroleum-based fuel to the Axis.
foaf:name
  • Operation Tidal Wave
foaf:depiction
  • External Image
causalties
  • 440 killed and 220 captured or missing
  • 53 B-24s destroyed
  • 55 B-24s damaged
combatant
  • Bulgaria
  • Germany
  • Romania
  • United States
commander
date
is part of military conflict
place of military conflict
result
  • Strategic Allied failure
strength
  • 177B-24s(162 over the target)
  • Heavy anti-aircraft defenses, 52Bf 109s,Bf 110s, andIAR-80s
thumbnail
is battle of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.13.91 as of Nov 14 2017


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:       RDF       ODATA       Microdata      About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data]
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3212 as of Mar 29 2016, on Linux (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu), Single-Server Edition (68 GB total memory)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2026 OpenLink Software