<i>Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945.</i><br>
Oblique aerial view of ruined residential and commercial buildings south of the Eilbektal Park (seen at upper right) in the Eilbek district of Hamburg, Germany.  These were among the 16,000 multi-storeyed apartment buildings destroyed by the firestorm which developed during the raid by Bomber Command on the night of 27/28 July 1943 (Operation GOMORRAH).  The road running diagonally from upper left to lower right is Eilbeker Weg, crossed by Rückertstraße.
Dowd J (Fg Off), Royal Air Force official photographer
between August 1943 and 1945 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1943-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1943-08-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1326,+1945-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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