Colonel Edward Timberlake's 93rd Bomb Group earned the nickname "Ted's Traveling Circus" having been tasked to fight over France, North Africa and Italy before its brief return to England. The oil painting depicts the 93rd on its first mission to Germany on March 18, 1943. The target was the submarine facility at Vegesack where the 93rd lost one aircraft with ten crew members. The Group's Consolidated B-24Ds are seen passing through 21,000 feet as they cross the coast of East Anglia on this successful mission. The rest of that Spring was dedicated to very low-level formation training around England. Returning to North Africa several months later, 15 of the 18 B-24s shown were to be lost in the target area on the famous low-level Ploesti (Romania) oil field raids of August 1, 1943.
