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Bomb Damage - Ploesti Romania

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keywords: wwii, european theater, ploesti romania, 15th air air force, bombing campaign, bomb destruction

Synopsis: Unedited footage from captured German film documenting the bomb damage and destruction of oil refineries, rail transportation, and aircraft factories by the U.S. 15th Air Force bomber Command over Romania...(read more)

  • Date: 1944
  • Duration: 00:11:40
  • Sound: Yes
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: Romania

Bomb Damage - Ploesti, Romania

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Ploesti Romania - Bomb Damage

Ploesti, Romania (Roumania): April-June 1944

Scenes from captured German film shows the damage to the complex of oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania, the richest oil fields in Europe from the continuing bombing and air attacks by the U.S. 15th Air Force. Scenes of German firemen fighting fires at the Concordia Vega refineries. Various scenes of fires and heavy smoke from oil storage tanks.

In September 1944 the Commander of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces and the Commanding General of the U.S. 15th Air Force inspected the bomb damage at Ploesti, Romania and visited the Astra Romania refinery. Shows damage to cracking plant and various scenes of destruction caused by Allied bombers.

Shows American military personnel inspecting the bombing damage at the Romano-Americana plant. Various scenes of destruction at the Romano-Americana refinery.

Turnu-Severn, Romania (Roumania)

Captured German film shows damage from Allied bombing attacks; destroyed buildings, work shops, railroad yards, round house, and locomotives. Rail transportation was critical to the Nazis for withdrawal of ten Nazi Divisions from the lower Balkans.

Brasov, Romania (Roumania)

LS, fires and much heavy black smoke at Brasov, an important railway line that moved oil and freight between central Romania and western Europe. Various scenes of factory, railroad facilities and airstrip at Brasov. Shows damaged buildings of a munitions and cannon factory at Brasov, Romania. Shows damaged and destroyed buildings of the largest aircraft factory in Romania.

Bucharest, Romania (Roumania)

Bucharest, as the transportation hub and major commercial and industrial center of Romania, presented many bombing targets for the 15th Air Force. Captured German films shows destruction of the Bucharest North railway station taken during and after an Allied raid on April 24, 1944.

Beginning September 2, 1944 after the Russians entered Bucharest American cameras started recording the bomb damage to Bucharest; shows destruction of railroad marshaling yards.

Scene of Central University Library of Bucharest and the Royal Palace damaged by German air attacks after Bucharest was captured by the Russians. Various wreckage and bomb damage scenes in Bucharest, Romania.

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