Category Archives: History

A couple of guys have enquired within the last week about what’s going on with my TIDAL WAVE/Ploesti documentary since they hadn’t heard anything from me for a while.  The 70th anniversary of the mission was a couple of weeks ago and I had really wanted to have my documentary on the street by then.  Didn’t make it.

I’m putting in a MINIMUM of eight hours a day, seven days a week on the TIDAL WAVE project, regardless of what else I’m doing.  I try to take a full day off every three weeks, but don’t always get to do that, what with travel and all, and I get in about 10-12 hours on most days. ...  (Read more)

This bibliography is a work-in-progress, as I’ve obtained and read so many damn documents that it will take me forever to get this typed up, aside from the difficulty of finding all these references.

The list below is MUCH less than 1% (yes, one percent) of the books, papers, monographs, messages, reports, histories, etc., that I’m using to create this TIDAL WAVE (Ploesti) documentary.  ...  (Read more)

About a week ago I received a huge dump of contemporary (original) Romanian and German documents related to TIDAL WAVE. All these docs are in the Romanian or German language, and since I don’t speak either language, I’ve been working 15-16 hour days since the pile arrived to get them translated.

Not to overstate the situation, but this document dump is proving to sort of like the “Wikileaks” of the Axis side TIDAL WAVE. Very, very good stuff. ...  (Read more)

By David H. Klaus (with additional information provided by Dana Bell)
© 2013

Romanian citizens reported being attacked by “Soviet” bombers shortly after midday on Sunday, August 1st, 1943.  They can be excused for their confusion.² ...  (Read more)

Been a while since I updated you on what’s been going on with the Tidal Wave/Ploesti project. Don’t let my lack of communication imply that I haven’t been busy, however!

This documentary is about more than just Tidal Wave mission execution—although that is certainly one of the main sections. “War stories” about what the men on Tidal Wave experienced can be found all over the place, whether firsthand accounts from actual participants or secondhand or third-hand hearsay. ...  (Read more)

Here is the final part of noted aviation historian and author Dana Bell’s interview of documentary producer Dave Klaus about the upcoming Ploesti/Tidal Wave DVD set.

Be sure to fill in your name and primary email address in the box on the right side of this page to ensure you’re notified when the documentary is released as well as other important updates. ... 

Here is Part 2 of noted aviation historian and author Dana Bell’s interview of documentary producer Dave Klaus about the upcoming Ploesti/Tidal Wave DVD set.

The third and final part of this interview is shown in the next post. ... 

Noted aviation historian and author Dana Bell interviewed documentary producer David H. Klaus on about his upcoming documentary on the Tidal Wave low level attack on the Romanian oil refineries at Ploesti on 1 Aug 1943.

Here is Part 1 of Dana’s interview of Dave Klaus. Part 2 will be posted shortly. ... 

I need your help.

The first 250 people who order my “deluxe” Tidal Wave DVD documentary set (multiple DVDs when they become available) will receive a FREE, full-size (13″ x 17″), suitable-for-framing, exact replica of one of the official Tidal Wave attack approach map/diagrams used by the pilots and bombardiers on their final low-level runs into their targets. It will ship rolled in a sturdy container so you can display it any way you wish. ...  (Read more)