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Forgotten Bastards Of The Eastern Front American Airmen Behind The Soviet Lines And The Collapse Of The Grand Alliance Serhii Plokhy

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Forgotten Bastards Of The Eastern Front American Airmen Behind The Soviet Lines And The Collapse Of The Grand Alliance Serhii Plokhy
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
File Extension: PDF
File size: 3.06 MB
Pages: 362
Author: Serhii Plokhy
ISBN: 9780190061012, 0190061014
Language: English
Year: 2019

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Forgotten Bastards Of The Eastern Front American Airmen Behind The Soviet Lines And The Collapse Of The Grand Alliance Serhii Plokhy by Serhii Plokhy 9780190061012, 0190061014 instant download after payment.

The full story of the first and only time American and Soviets fought side-by-side in World War II
At the conference held in Tehran in November 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. For all that he had been pushing for the United States and Great Britain to do more to help the war effort--the Soviets were bearing by far the heaviest burden in terms of casualties--Stalin, recalling the presence of foreign troops during the Russian Revolution, balked at the suggestion of foreign soldiers on Soviet soil. His concern was that they would inflame regional and ideological differences. Eventually in early 1944, Stalin was persuaded to give in, and Operation Baseball and then Frantic were initiated. B-17 Superfortresses were flown from bases in Italy to the Poltova region (in what is today 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, and eventually trying to prevent fraternization between American servicemen and local women. 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. Using previously inaccessible archives, Allies and Adversaries offers a bottom-up history of the Grand Alliance, showing how it first began to fray on the airfields of World War II.

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