Picture taken from ground level in Hamburg shows - devastation resulting from R.A.F. and U.S.A.A.F. bomber onslaughts in July and August 1943. Operation Gomorrah during the last week of July 1943, created one of the largest firestorms raised by the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces in World War II, killing an estimated 35,000 civilians and wounding 125,000 more in Hamburg, and virtually destroying most of the city Circa August 1943 Mirrorpix/Courtesy Everett Collection