1943年8月1日,正值美国空军创建纪念日。在北非的美军班加西基地,午夜2点时分,美军飞行员紧急集合,倾听简短的训话之后,就驾机起飞,对德国重要石油供应地——普洛耶什蒂炼油厂进行大规模的轰炸。他们飞越地中海,航程1931千米,共出动177架飞机,对炼油厂发射了12.5万发枪弹,投下了311吨炸弹。 August 1, 1943, coincides with the founding anniversary of the United States Air Force. At about 2 p.m. in North Africa’s U.S. Benghazi base, U.S. pilots took off after an emergency assembly and listened to a brief lecture on a large-scale bombing of the Ploiesti refinery, a major oil supply in Germany. They flew over the Mediterranean Sea, with a total length of 1931 kilometers, dispatched 177 aircraft and fired 125,000 bullets and 311 tons of bombs on the refinery.