FIRST BRITAIN TO RUSSIA SHUTTLE MISSION. Lieutenant R.P.

FIRST BRITAIN TO RUSSIA SHUTTLE MISSION. Lieutenant R.P. Kenyon of Detroit, Michigan, gets ready to give his P-51 Mustang the gun for the first fighter-bomber shuttle mission from Britain to Russia. Private Ben Reizen of Troy, New York, a member of the ground crew which survived the plane, stands by his side to pull the hood over the cockpit. More than 1000 heavy bombers escorted by Mustangs of the Eighth U.S. Air Force, attacked Berlin June 21, 1944, to open the two-way aerial bombardment of Nazidom. The planes took off from bases in Britain, unloosed their bombs over Germany and landed in Russia. Refuelled and reloaded in Russia, they will take off again, hurl more bombs on German military installations, and fly back to the home base in England. P-51 Mustang.