Een Boeing 'B-17 Fortress II' ('Vliegende Forten') bommenwerper in Rusland. 'U.S.

Een Boeing 'B-17 Fortress II' ('Vliegende Forten') bommenwerper in Rusland. 'U.S. and Soviet soldiers unload bombs at American air base in Russia. American and Russian armament crewmen, beneath the nose of a U.S. B-17 bomber at a base built in the Soviet Union for U.S. planes, unloads bombs which will be hurled against enemy targets by American aircraft taking off from the Russian airfield. On July 5, 1944, U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress bombers and long-range escort fighter planes landed in England after completing a 7,000-mile triangular bombing tour that took them to Russia and Italy. These U.S. plane left bases in Britain on June 21, bombed an oil plant south of Berlin, and landed in the Soviet Union. Five days later, they flew to Italy, attacking en route a German synthetic oil plant in Poland. On the last flight of the mission, they blasted rail yards in south France before landing in Great Britain. The mission demonstrates that every strategic target in German-controlled Europe is now within reach of heavy Allied bombers, tightening a constricting aerial noose around the enemy.'