English: B-17 Flying Fortress bombers flying through dense flak. The olive-drab B-17Gs indicate that this was probably a late July 1944 Merseburg mission, and the white triangle indicates these are 1st Bomb Division B-17Gs. Captions in English works:
A very famous view of the formation flying through a field of flak. Believed to be at
Merseberg, Germany [sic][1]
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