More than once, the effort brought Soviet and American planes into combat.

A truck loaded with explosives had been hit by Soviet planes.

The Soviet plane had come down very low, to use its machine guns.

"I used to play with clothespins, imagining they were Soviet planes," he recalls.

Two pilots of the 4477th died flying the Soviet planes.

There'd been forty Soviet planes in the attack wave to begin with.

This is the best Soviet plane in service.

It was inevitable that the bomber and everyone inside were going to be cut to pieces by these flashing Soviet planes.

The crew was taken to the airport shortly before two Soviet planes were scheduled to depart.

He added that it might take years for the West to certify the new Soviet planes.