Air Security of Import Echelons

Karelo-Finnish SSR, the city of Belomorsk, April 5, 1944 The regiment commander, Major [Pyotr Nikiforovich] Romanenko holds a map in his hands, talks with the pilots: senior lieutenant [Nikolai Panteleevich] Besedin, lieutenant II Maximov at the airfield by the plane. Watch in the hands of Major P.N. Romanenko showing the time 18:25. Having received the task, the pilots board the planes. Takeoff of planes from a snow-covered airfield. Air security of a train carrying imported goods by rail. Transportation of anti-aircraft installations. Railroad station. Echelon on the tracks.

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1944