Een Boeing 'B-17 Fortress II' ('Vliegende Forten') bommenwerper. 'Attack from the East.

Een Boeing 'B-17 Fortress II' ('Vliegende Forten') bommenwerper. 'Attack from the East. B-17 Flying Fortresses once again hit the important Nazi-operated oil fields at Ploesti July 14, 1944, scoring direct hits on the target, in another of the 'shuttle bombing' raids accomplished by land-based planes flying from England to the Ukraine, thence to Italy and from there back to England. The institution of 'shuttle bombing' was a new aspect of the ever-growing offensives of the United Nations on the Eastern front.'