GERMANS BOMB U.S. AIR BASE IN UKRAINE
Poltava, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union • June 22, 1944 Since mid-1942 U.S. Army Air Forces brass had proposed to the Soviets an expansion of shuttle bombing missions that would strike hard-to-reach targets in Central and Eastern Europe. The concept of shuttle bombing was straight-forward: Allied bombers and fighter escorts would launch themselves from 1 airfield, unload…