Image:Ploiesti-bombarded-by-the-US.jpg

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The image was taken by the US military personal during their duty, i.e. when bombing. :-)

Image source: loc.gov.

Ploesti, Romania. August 1, 1943. Oil storage tanks at the Columbia Aquila refinery burning after the raid of B-24 Liberator bombers of the United States Army Air Force. Some of the structures have been camouflaged.

CREATED/PUBLISHED 1943 Aug. 1.

NOTES Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

SUBJECTS Safety film negatives. Romania--Ploesti.

MEDIUM 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.

CALL NUMBER LC-USW33- 036496-C

REPRODUCTION NUMBER LC-USW33-036496-C DLC (b&w film neg.)

PART OF Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540

DIGITAL ID (digital file from intermediary roll film) fsa 8e01660 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8e01660

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