FIRST BRITAIN TO RUSSIA SHUTTLE MISSION. These Eighth U.S.

FIRST BRITAIN TO RUSSIA SHUTTLE MISSION. These Eighth U.S. Air Force crewmen worked all night to service P-51 Mustang fighters for the first fighter-bomber shuttle mission from Britain to Russia via Germany. They are shown here wishing their pilots good luck on the takeoff. More than 1000 heavy bombers, escorted by the fighters, attacked Berlin June 21, 1944, to open the two-way aerial bombardment of Nazidom. The flyers took off from bases in Britain, unloosed their bombs over Germany and landed in Russia. Refuelled and reloaded in Russia, the planes will take off again, hurl more bombs on German military installations and fly back to the home base in England.