Alfred Kalberer was silenced upon raising objections to Allied plans for this initiative, which were disrupted when several planners were not allowed to participate out of fear they'd be captured.
Alfred Kalberer was silenced upon raising objections to Allied plans for this initiative, which were disrupted when several planners were not allowed to participate out of fear they'd be captured. Another complication arose for the Allies when Colonel Compton decided to make a wrong turn at a railroad intersection. Most of its planning was done by Lewis Brereton and Jacob Smart, who didn't count on the defenses that Alfred Gerstenberg put into place following the HALPRO mission one year earlier. The Allied base at Benghazi was hampered by dysentery. Several time-delayed bombs were used, so as to fly very low to the ground, to minimize civilian casualties, while still disabling the refineries at Concordia Vega and Columbia Aquila. Nicknamed "Black Sunday" due to heavy losses incurred, this 1943 bombing raid targeted a certain oil producing city in Romania. FTP, name this Allied Operation whose code name stems from the repeated air attacks coming from the sea.
Alfred Kalberer was silenced upon raising objections to Allied plans for this initiative, which were disrupted when several planners were not allowed to participate out of fear they'd be captured.
Operation {Tidal Wave} [accept {bombing} of {Ploesti}; prompt on “{Black Sunday}” before mentioned]