Fighting with the Soviets provides the first comprehensive look at
Operation FRANTIC-an ambitious but doomed Allied enterprise that
produced the war's only significant Soviet-American military
venture and demonstrated just how complex and demanding coalition
warfare could be.
Using Ukrainian air bases, FRANTIC was designed to help deliver
the knockout blow to the Nazi war machine, while minimizing the
severe losses experienced by Allied air forces in daylight bombing
campaigns over Germany. In theory, it allowed American bombers to
reach targets deeper in Germany, divert Luftwaffe air support away
from Normandy, and provide additional cover for battles on the
Soviet's western front. American strategists also hoped that the
operation would forge closer ties with the USSR and encourage the
ever wary Stalin to provide access to Siberian air bases for use
against Japan.
Conversino, however, shows that things did not quite go as
planned. After an early period of comradely euphoria, relations
between Russians and Americans chilled amidst cultural differences
and grew even icier in the wake of the Luftwaffe's decimation of
Poltava airbase and Stalin's indifference to the Polish resistance
in Warsaw. And, as the Red juggernaut pushed ever deeper toward
Berlin, Stalin's support for FRANTIC faded altogether.
Based on a wealth of published Soviet accounts and USAAF
documents, as well as numerous interviews with American airmen,
Conversino's study portrays one of the great "might-have-beens" of
the war and shows how it fell victim to politics, swift victories
on the battlefield, and clashing national visions.
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