Ali͡aska-Sibirʹ

Description:

"This photo album carries about 200 photographs, comprehensively illustrating the activities of the unique Ferrying Route Alaskas-Siberia, along which during the years of the Great Patriotic War eight thousand war and transport planes were ferried to our country from the USA. The largest part of the book is devoted to the veterans of the Ferrying Route. In this book rare photographs from the state archives, the compiler's private archives and those of labour and war veterans are used, as well as those of the contemporary photographers"-- T.p. verso.

subjects: Aerial operations, American,  Aerial operations, Soviet,  American Aerial operations,  Lend-lease operations (1941-1945),  Soviet Aerial operations,  World War, 1939-1945,  Aerial operations,  Foreign relations