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100 1  Plokhy, Serhii,|d1957-|eauthor. 
245 10 Forgotten bastards of the Eastern Front :|bAmerican airmen
       behind the Soviet lines and the collapse of the Grand 
       Alliance|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cSerhii Plokhy. 
246 30 American airmen behind Soviet lines and the collapse of 
       the Grand Alliance 
250    Unabridged. 
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511 1  Read by Alex Wyndham. 
520    At the conference held in Moscow in October 1943, American
       officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation 
       in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The Normandy 
       Invasion was already in the works; what American officials
       were suggesting until then was a second air front: the US 
       Air Force would establish bases in Soviet-controlled 
       territory, in order to "shuttle-bomb" the Germans from the
       Eastern front. Stalin, recalling the presence of foreign 
       troops during the Russian Revolution, balked at the 
       suggestion of foreign soldiers on Soviet soil. Eventually 
       in early 1944, Stalin was persuaded to give in, and 
       Operation Baseball and then Frantic were initiated. B-17 
       Flying Fortresses were flown from bases in Italy to the 
       Poltava region in Ukraine. As Plokhy's book shows, what 
       happened on these airbases mirrors the nature of the Grand
       Alliance itself. While both sides were fighting for the 
       same goal, Germany's unconditional surrender, differences 
       arose that no common purpose could overcome. Soviet secret
       policeman watched over the operations, shadowing every 
       move. A catastrophic air raid by the Germans revealed the 
       limitations of Soviet air defenses. Relations soured and 
       the operations went south. Indeed, the story of the 
       American bases foreshadowed the eventual collapse of the 
       Grand Alliance and the start of the Cold War. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xAerial operations, American. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xAerial operations, Russian. 
650  0 Air bases|zUkraine|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|zUkraine. 
651  0 United States|xRelations|zSoviet Union. 
651  0 Soviet Union|xRelations|zUnited States. 
700 1  Wyndham, Alex. 
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