Operational Record of the Ploesti Mission

Target Force Group Commander

 Aircraft Target (1) Est. Destr. Refin. Cap.
(6 mos.)		 Aircraft Losses A/C Returned Enemy A/C Claimed Destd.
Dispatched Turnbacks Reached Target Assigned Bombed (2) In Action In Turkey Misc. Causes Total Lost Home Base Other Bases Damaged
White I (376th)
Col. Compton		 28 (3) 1 26 Wh. I 6? A/C
Wh. II		 0% 1 1 1 (3) 3 23 1 6 1
White II (93d)
Lt.Col. Baker		 25 5 32 Wh. II Wh. II?
III?
IV, V		 15% 11 2 0 13 15 4 13 2
White III (93d)
Lt. Col. Baker		 12 Wh. III 0%
White IV (98th)
Col. Kane		 47 (4) 7 39 Wh. IV Wh. IV Astra 50%
Orion 30%		 18 1 (5) 2 (6) 21 9 (8) 10 14 33
White V (44th)
Col. Johnson		 17 0 39 Wh. V Wh. V 100% 7 2 2 (7) 11 22 4 15 (9) 13
Blue (44th)
Lt.Col. Posey		 20 Blue Blue 100%
Red (389th)
Col. Wood		 29 0 29 Red Red 100% 4 2 0 6 20 3 10 (10) 2
Total 178 13 163     42.5% 41 8 5 54 89 22 58 51 (11)
    NOTES:
  1. Targets: White I, Romana Americana Refinery; White II, Concordia Vega; White III, Standard Petrol Block and Unirea Speranta; White IV, Astra Romana and Unirea Orion; White V, Colombia Aquila; Blue, Creditul Minier, Brazi; Red, Steaua Romana, Campina
  2. Statistics on bombs dropped vary greatly. It is quite impossible to say how many were dropped on targets.
  3. One aircraft crashed at sea enroute to target.
  4. One aircraft crash landed attempting to land just after taking off.
  5. This aircraft crashed in the sea just off the Turkish coast.
  6. Besides the aircraft that crash landed taking off (5), one crash landed in Cyprus enroute home.
  7. Two crash landed enroute home.
  8. An additional one crash landed on return home
  9. One is uncertain
  10. Three are uncertain
  11. A report considered reliable by a local agent placed enemy losses at four German and eight Rumanian fighters, and 20 damaged.