Soviet Forces

Poltava

U.S Air Force

Russian pilots and ground crew stand in front of a Soviet Air Force’s Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bomber at Poltava, Russia, during the first shuttle raid Italy to Russia and return in June 1944. The American is TSgt. Bernard J. McGuire, Tonawanda, N.Y., of the 348th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force. Victor Sierra