This rare R.A.C. ‘Captains of Aircraft’ map is titled “Newcastle to Prague” and shows many original annotation marks including the to and return flight path taken by this bomber as well as German flack coverage markers they would encounter on their mission. This map was used by the R.A.F. (Royal Air Force) on February 20th, 1945 for a strategic bombing raid over the German occupied city of Nuremberg. The map designates the exact flight path that this squadron took on their way to multiple bombing raids on German cities with Nuremberg being their main target (‘TGT’ written over the city of Nuremberg on the map). Located on the back of the map is writing from this particular R.A.C captain annotating that this mission was the strategic Allied bombing of the Nuremberg marshalling yards. While the name ‘UMBRIAGO’ is unknow it was most likely the call sign over for this specific bomber with the bomber number #801.

The bombing of Nuremberg was a series of air raids carried out by allied forces of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) that caused heavy damage throughout the city from 1940 through 1945.

Nuremberg was a favored point of attack for allied bombers in World War II even though it was only later included into the radius of action due to its location in the south of Germany. Because Nuremberg was a strong economic and infrastructural hub and had symbolic importance as the "City of the Nuremberg Rally" it was singled out by the Allies as an important target.

The greatest damages occurred from the attack on 2 January 1945 in which 521 British Bombers dropped 6,000 high-explosive bombs and one million incendiary devices on the city.

The population suffered more than 1,800 deaths and 100,000 people lost their homes in this attack. Nuremberg's old town was almost completely destroyed, and the city as a whole was badly damaged. After Würzburg, Nuremberg was one of Bavaria's cities that suffered the most damage in the bomb war and was also among the most destroyed cities in Germany as a whole. The eastern half of the city (north of the Pegnitz river) was known as the "steppe" after the destruction and during the clearing of the rubble.

The air raids ceased on 11 April 1945. On 20 April, after the Battle of Nuremberg, the city was occupied by units of the 7th US Army.