Stalin’s American Air Force – Operation Frantic 1944 September 4, 2020 Unipro2013main Air War over Germany WW2, World War 2 Aviation Based in the Soviet UnionIn 1944, over a thousand US aircraft were based in the Soviet Union as part of an ingenious but doomed operation codenamed ‘Frantic’, using a new concept called ‘shuttle bombing’. Credit to : Mark Felton Productions