Low Level Mission Author:Leon Wolff On August 1, 1943 the United States Air Forse made a daring, dramatic low level bombing raid on the Ploesti oil refineries in Romania. This tragic and heroic mission captured the imagination of the entire Allied world. Out os this single military operation came five Congressional Medals of Honor and thousands of lesser decorations. — A disaster... more » occurred on that August day in 1943 which still haunts the fliers of World War II.« less