Hamburg being bombed by B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 381st Bomb Group, the aircraft are under attack from an FW 190. Official caption on image : "24560 A.C." Printed caption on reverse: '24560 AC - Fighters Vs. Forts. Silhouetted against the smoke pall over Hamburg are Flying Fortresses of the 8th Air Force and one lone Focke-Wulfe-190 far in the rear as the heavy bombers hamered another vital German target, this time following up the heavy RAF attack on the preceding night, July 24. In the three days from Saturday through Monday, 8th Air Force Forts destroyed more than 100 Nazi fighter planes in flying a total of more than 3,000 miles and slugging throguh the worst flak and fighter belts in Hitler's "Fortress of Europe" to hit targets from Norway to Hanover inside Germany. 381st Bomb Group. Please Credit: "Official U.S. Air Forces Photo."'