A “Tail-End Charley” (last plane of a flight) caught this picture of flaming Ploesti during the U.S. raid on the Rumanian oil center which supplies vital fuel to Germany (TIME, Aug. 9).

June 12, 1942 In the first American mission against a European target, 12 U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) B-24 bomber planes attack the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania. Ploesti will continue to be ...

The B-24, produced in greater numbers than some other aircraft, become specially awesome for its bombing raids at the Ploesti ...

In June 1944, his B-24 was on a mission to bomb the oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania, when the airplane was brought down by flak. In this video made in 2007, Musgrove talks about what it was ...