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Low level mission

Leon Wolff

1957159 pagesabout 2–4 hours
1957
first published
  • 1957Doubleday · 240 pages · ENG
  • 1957Doubleday
  • 1960Panther · ENG
  • 1960Hamilton & Co · 159 pages · ENG
  • 1972Arno Press · 240 pages · ENGISBN 9780405037863
  • 1991Time-Life Books · 240 pages · ENGISBN 9780809496044

"Only once in American history have five Congressional Medals of Honor been awarded to participants of a single military operation. That single instance was the low-level AAF bombing of the oil refineries at Ploesti, Rumania, on August 1, 1943. How did it happen that one air assault could create these and a thousand lesser decorations? The reasons are told by Leon Wolff in this book based largely on recorded interviews and eyewitness reports of survivors of that Ploesti mission."--Book Jacket.

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ViolenceFrequent

When and where

ThemesWar

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  • Warmoderateunreviewed
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