Sergeant Bernard McGuire and Soviet pilots of the Pe-2 bomber

Sergeant Bernard McGuire and Soviet pilots of the Pe-2 bomber

Jul 4, 2016 #Red Army, #US Army

Sergeant Bernard McGuire

 

Soviet pilots, ground personnel and the American Sergeant Bernard McGuire (in the center of photo) against the Soviet dive bomber Pe-2 in Poltava in June 1944 during Great Patriotic War.

The American Technician Sergeant Bernard McGuire from Tonawanda, NY, 348 Squadron, 99th Bomb Group of the US Air Force.

In some foreign sources in the picture plane mistakenly identified as the Yak-4.

The Eastern Front of the Second World War in the Soviet Russia.

 

 

Photography Location: Poltava, Ukraine
Time when the photo was taken: June 1944

 

Source of the US Army Bernard McGuire: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE US AIR FORCE

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