Four USAAF B-29s crashed in the Soviet Union returning from attacks on Japan during 1944. Realising the Soviet Union was behind in heavy bombers, Stalin ordered a ‘reverse engineering’ of the B-29.

The Yak-9 performed more anti-tank missions, in particular, the Yak-9T variant with a 37mm cannon, in this case the ...

Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the back foot by the German invasion on 22 June 1941. On the first day alone, an ...

Suffering an arduous start in the CBI Theater, the B-29 would initially struggle to prove its worth, the victim of teething problems from its rapid development and production, along with supply issues ...