Eagles East: The Army Air Force and the Soviet Union, 1941-1945

ix, 256 pp. "This book is intended to enlighten a crucial part of Russo-American relations during World War II. Using archival and published sources, this writer has sought to present a documented objective account of American air force relations with the Soviet Union. Russo-American military relations during the Second World War essentially concerned aerial affairs. These relations involved allocating and delivering thousands of Lend-Lease aircraft, the item most in demand by the Russians, trying to establish AAF bases in southern Russia and Siberia and attempting to collaborate by the exchange of military information, establishing close liaison, and securing the release of interned American flyers from Soviet occupied territory. These military matters carried political overtones which the White House used in the hope of improving diplomatic relations between the two countries. This study explores these aspects of America's wartime relations with the Kremlin."