The American (Lieutenant Thompson Highfill from the 99th Bomber Air Group) and Soviet pilots posing next to the United States Air Force Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter aircraft, which was delivered from the USA to the USSR under the Lend-Lease Act during the Great Patriotic War of the Russian Nation (June 22, 1941 – May 09, 1945). One of the regiments of the Poltava airfield, Summer 1944.
The Eastern Front of the Wehrmacht in the Second Wolrd War in Europe.
Location: Poltave region, Ukraine, USSR
Time when the photo was taken: 1944
Source of the Bell P-39 Airacobra photo: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE US AIR FORCE