Tidal Wave Footage Photos, 15th AAF and Luftwaffe, 'Black Sunday', 1 August 1943

Thanks David.

I've seen you spent 4 days (from 30 april to 4 may) to look at the pages.
That means this thread it's still interesting for many of you.

Dan.

Thanks J,

We are glad that you are realistic TW historian who help us with Tidal Wave reserch.

The american POW (Red Cross card) should be from summer '44 and not from '43.

Dan.

This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on May 12, 2005 02:14 pm

You may be right.
Constantin Balta was in that time stationed at Ghimbav.

Below part from a list with the place of death and burrial of indentified US airmen over Romania in '43-'44. Police and military records were used to compil the list by it's authors Eugen Stanescu and Gavriil Preda, from Ploesti museum.
On the list we can see that Joe E. Boswell was found death in Plopu village and was burried in local cemetery in "groapa comuna" ( common grave) on 1 august '43.



This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on May 18, 2005 12:48 pm

Despite it's poor quality, a rare document from the romanian archiv. A map with the location of all planes ( american,german,romanian) crashed on 1 august '43. Courtesy Ploesti Museum.



This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on May 13, 2005 06:42 am

And a close up with NE of Ploesti. The Plopu village ( Porter plane ??) and Chitorani village ( Hells Angels ???) .

For those who are still interested i found the exact location on the map of the women prison from Rudului street hit by Jose Carioca.
The prison is located on Rudului between Cercelus street ( north) and Anul 1907 street (south ).




This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on May 13, 2005 08:34 am

And the position of the prison on the old map (1937) of Ploesti .

And a picture with the prison from the back side ( Rahova street).



This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on May 13, 2005 08:35 am

Pictures of the Teleajan creek/river on the NE of Ploesti.

From Hill's "Black Sunday"

Quote:

"AS BOOMERANG flew out of the city limits, the pilots spotted a creek bed and cranked the Liberator down lower. Flying with the belly in the creek bed and the wings at ground level, the flak guns couldn't get a clear shot at BOOMERANG."


Picture courtesy Dan Melinte.

Picture courtesy Dan Melinte

The today refinery is on the place of Romana Americana. Courtesy Dan Melinte.

And below my friend Cip made a three dimensinal image using NASA WORLD WIND computer generate programe for Teleajan river creek. Ploestiori village is on the map ( NE Ploesti). Courtesy Ciprian N.

The creek river was large enough for the big wingspan of B-24 D.
Picture courtesy Dan Melinte.

Using the 3D programme ( NASA WORLD WIND) i made the map with the locations of the two plane crashed after the RED TARGET ( Campina ). Horton's plane ( Sandwitch) at the confluence of Prahova river with Doftana river (500m west from the old bridge) and Hughes plane on Prahova creek river bed ( Bobolia hamlet). Courtesy Dan Melinte.



This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on May 16, 2005 07:55 am