In March 1945, during World War II, hundreds of American B-29 bombers carried out the most destructive conventional air raid in history. Under the command of General Curtis LeMay, incendiary weapons ...

One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at Ploesti. The low-altitude bombing raid aimed to cripple German fuel production ...