U.S. airmen land at new Russian bases.

U.S. airmen land at new Russian bases. American airmen wash up after landing for the first time at one of the new bases built for American aircraft in Soviet Russia. The history-making landings took place on June 2, 1944, when U.S. Flying Fortresses, escorted by American Mustangs and Russian Yak fighters, blasted German targets in Bucharest, the capital of Rumania, and then proceeded to the new Russian bases. Four days later, on June 6, the American bombers, flying from and returning to their bases in Russia, bombed Galats, Rumania's chief import port. The new operations to and from the Soviet Union again emphasize the close cooperation of the Allies and demonstrate that industrial targets in German-held Eastern Europe are exposed to the same relentless bombings which have crippled the enemy's aircraft industry and smashed war plants in western Germany.