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Originally Posted by cpaige5@hotmail.com
Can you tell me if any Japanese planes were interned in the USSR and how many US planes were interned there and what happened to the crews?
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Hello cpaige5.
Interned for Japanes, i don't know. Captured, certainly... a lot! On august 1945 the 8th, soviet forces in the extreme est were faced by 1 000 000 japanese soldiers , 1215 tanks and 1907 planes. All of them were either captured on their airfields, either destroyed.
About US planes, I don't know exactly the number, but if the crews of heavy bombers were given back in "due dilligence", the planes systematically were kept in the USSR. So in late summer 1945, the 45 TBAD unity was using about 25 B-17 and 29 B-24 in its both régiments.
AFAIK, all this planes were collected more or less damaged, then restored on the ETO. * No information about planes interned in Siberia, sorry.
*"Mir Aviatsii 2/2001"