WWII - 1944, Bombing Brux & Ploesti Oil Fields, 22Jul44
Slate: 22Jul44. Aerial of formation of B24 Liberators w/ snow capped mountains in distance; above clouds & black smoke rising. LS of formation of B-24s.
06:58:17 Slate. View of river channel, farm fields & bombs falling. Clouds.
06:59:20 Ground shot w/ heavy black smoke beyond several parked planes.
06:59:37 MCU of B-24 in flight w/ Katie on nose; bombs dropping.
07:00:50 Smoke rising from ground, bombs falling, light cloud cover.
07:01:39 Slate. Resce. B24 in flight over mountains & over clouds. Flak, bombs dropping. Distant formation
07:02:24 Slate. same. Clouds, flak bursts. Heavy smoke rising.
WW2; Romania;
NOTE: German occupied Most, Czechoslovakia, aka Brux, was site of synthetic fuel synthesized from brown coal at the Sudetenlandische Treibstoffwerke AG (STW) Maltheuren plant & repeatedly bombed during the Oil Campaign of WW2.
WWII - 1944, Bombing Brux & Ploesti Oil Fields, 22Jul44 Slate: 22Jul44. Aerial of formation of B24 Liberators w/ snow capped mountains in distance; above clouds & black smoke rising. LS of formation of B-24s. 06:58:17 Slate. View of river channel, farm fields & bombs falling. Clouds. 06:59:20 Ground shot w/ heavy black smoke beyond several parked planes. 06:59:37 MCU of B-24 in flight w/ Katie on nose; bombs dropping. 07:00:50 Smoke rising from ground, bombs falling, light cloud cover. 07:01:39 Slate. Resce. B24 in flight over mountains & over clouds. Flak, bombs dropping. Distant formation 07:02:24 Slate. same. Clouds, flak bursts. Heavy smoke rising. WW2; Romania; NOTE: German occupied Most, Czechoslovakia, aka Brux, was site of synthetic fuel synthesized from brown coal at the Sudetenlandische Treibstoffwerke AG (STW) Maltheuren plant & repeatedly bombed during the Oil Campaign of WW2.