Le Bourget: This Week in 1945
Seventy years ago this Saturday, a wing of 38 Russian-built Yak-3 fighters touched down at Le Bourget. Not for the first post-war air show, but for the welcoming home of a group of Free French pilots who had served in the Soviet air forces on the Eastern Front for more than two years, flying 5,240...
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