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A US Air Force B-24 Liberator heavy bomber during an attack over an oil refinery in Ploiesti, Romania, during Operation Tidle Wave. Operation Tidle Wave was a bombing raid by the United States on August 1st, 1943, targeting the oil fields of Romania around Ploiesti, which were key to the …

Us soldier standing guard over thousands of German prisoners in 1945 at Camp Remagen, part of the Rheinwiesenlager. The Rheinwiesenlager were 19 camps in Allied occupied Germany before the end of WW2, which held over one million surrendered Wehrmacht soldiers. Us Army Chief of Staff, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, made …