30th July 1943 brought down the curtain on 'Blitz Week' when 186 Fortresses bombed the Fieseler Werke aircraft factory at Kassel, a round-trip of some 600 miles. Twelve Fortresses were lost. This photograph was hastily snapped from the port waist gunner's station as the B-17s departed the smoking target area. Stretcher-bearers head towards a 385th BG Fortress returning to Great Ashfield with a wounded crewman aboard on 26 July 1943. Fifteen B-17s from the group attacked Wesermunde on this date, and three were lost. Group records indicate that this aircraft was the only B-17 to return with a wounded crewman.