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2003: One of the most famous images of World War II shows The Sandman, piloted by Robert Sternfels, as it emerges from a pall of smoke during the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Operation_Tidal_Wave" title="Category:Operation Tidal Wave">TIDALWAVE mission</a>.^{<a href="#cite_note-Stout-1">[1]</a>}
2002: The Sandman barely clears the stacks of the Astra Romana refinery.^{<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a>}
1944 (unreversed):^{Note 1} HITLERS NO. [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sic" class="extiw" title="en:sic">sic</a>] 1 oil source, Ploesti, Rumania, was bombed Aug. 1, 1943, by a large force (177) of B-24s which came in at smokestack level, braved oil and bombs exploding close beneath them to hit refineries, tanks, cracking plants. 53 aircraft and 660 air crewmen were lost.^{<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a>}

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current	22:38, 3 January 2017		1,800 × 1,596 (247 KB)	127.0.0.1 (talk)	<dl><dt>Captions and Titles from Published Works</dt></dl> <ul> <li>2003: One of the most famous images of World War II shows <i>The Sandman</i>, piloted by Robert Sternfels, as it emerges from a pall of smoke during the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Operation_Tidal_Wave" title="Category:Operation Tidal Wave">TIDALWAVE mission</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Stout_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stout-1">[1]</a></sup> </li> <li>2002: <i>The Sandman</i> barely clears the stacks of the Astra Romana refinery.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> </li> <li>1944 (unreversed):<sup><small>Note 1</small></sup> HITLERS NO. [<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sic" class="extiw" title="en:sic">sic</a></i>] 1 oil source, Ploesti, Rumania, was bombed Aug. 1, 1943, by a large force (177) of B-24s which came in at smokestack level, braved oil and bombs exploding close beneath them to hit refineries, tanks, cracking plants. 53 aircraft and 660 air crewmen were lost.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> </li> </ul>

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