Soviet Air Attack
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| Soviet Air Attack - Still delayed along the 2000-mile Eastern Front was the long-expected summer offensive. Soviet airmen, however, were not idle. In repeated air assaults they battered the strategic rail centers, like the one at Bryansk, where connecting lines lead north to Smolensk and south to Kharkov. Pictured here is a low-level strafing attack by a flight of twin-engined DB-3A medium bombers swooping down over a rail point jammed with Axis troops and supplies moving to the front. (Newsmap, U.S. War Dept.) |