U.S. and Russian airmen address bombs to the enemy. Airmen of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.

U.S. and Russian airmen address bombs to the enemy. Airmen of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. prepare a joint message to the enemy at an airbase in Russia used by American aircraft. The Russian word for bomb is written above the American word on a 250-pound (113-kilogram) demolition bomb lying on its side in the foreground. American aircraft have used bases in Russia since June 2, 1944, when Flying Fortresses and fighter planes took off from a base in Italy, bombed German targets in Bucharest, and continued to new airfields in Russia prepared to receive them. The new bases put all points in German-controlled Europe within range of U.S. planes, and completed a circle of Allied air and ground forces that is strangling the enemy.