- at Fort
Myers Army Air Field, Florida. The unit was
given the code name "
HALPRO" for
Halverson Project. This organization,
destined to be the
parent unit...
- production. In June 1942, 13 B-24
Liberators of the "Halverson project" (
HALPRO)
attacked Ploiești.
Though damage was small,
Germany and
Romania responded...
- B-24D
Liberator heavy bombers and a hand-picked
crews (as a
force called HALPRO – from "Halverson Project") was
stopped at RAF
Lydda en
route to
China to...
-
carry a ton more bombs. On 12 June 1942, 13 B-24s of the
Halverson Project (
HALPRO)
flying from
Egypt attacked the Axis-controlled oil
fields and refineries...
- ceased. The
USAAF first dropped bombs on
Romania on 12 June 1942
during the
HALPRO (Halverson project) raid
against Ploiești (the
first U.S.
mission against...
- oil
campaign of
World War II and
bombed it repeatedly, such as
during the
HALPRO (Halverson Project, June 1942) and
Operation Tidal Wave (1
August 1943)...
-
dispatched from the
United States to
operate from
China in May 1942 as the
HALPRO force, but were re-tasked to
support Allied operations in the Mediterranean...
-
dropped bombs on
Romania on 12 June 1942,
during the
Halverson project (
HALPRO) raid
against Ploiești – the
first U.S.
mission against a
European target...
- autobiography, God Is My Co-Pilot.
Haynes began organizing the
supply lines for
HALPRO,
beginning with
aviation fuel
deliveries to China. On
April 9,
Colonel William...
- the
vulnerability of the Ploiești
refineries by a June 1942 raid by the
HALPRO project, the area
around Ploiești had
become one of the most
heavily defended...
