16mm Movie - Air Force - Target Ploesti
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16mm Movie - Air Force - Target Ploesti This is a reel of 16mm sound film from the United States Air Force. The title of the movie is Target Ploesti . The movie does not have a leader. It does start before the titles though. This is a sound film, so if you have a 16mm projector with sound this would be a great movie to watch. The reel measures about 12" across, so you could probably estimate how long the movie would be. I believe this might be the Airpower production from 1957.Ploesti When Hitler began his blitzkrieg in Europe the small nation of Romania found itself precariously perched between German advances in Poland and Hungary, and Soviet advances from the Ukraine. The small country, not even as large as the state of Oregon, found itself besieged on two fronts despite attempts at neutrality.By ultimatum notes, on June 26 and 28, 1940, the Soviet Union forced Romania to cede Bessarbia, which had shaken off the Russian yoke in 1918, as well as Northern Bucovina (which had never belonged to Russia). Under the Vienna Diktat of August 30 that same year and after a German-Italia ultimatum, Romania was forced to give Hungary the north-western part of Transylvania. Under the Treaty of Craiova on September 7, 1940, Romania surrendered the southern part of Dobrudja. The loss of about one-third of the country's area and population caused
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