Us Official Photographs
Ploesti Oil Fields Blazing
1944-07-05
Black smoke from the blazing oil fields can be seen billowing through a layer of white clouds more than 20,000 feet up, following a pounding by the 15th Air Force bombers on 5 July 1944. Silhouetted against the clouds in the foreground is a formation of four Consolidated B-24 Liberators. (Taken by T/Sgt. Frank H. Paige, with a K-20 camera).
