Possibly Newfound Photo of Cpt "Ski" York's B-25B

[Mikhail Golovan]

They say that at dinner the American and Russian pilots had delicious food the Russian cuisine could offer art wartime: black and red caviar, meet and fish, vegetable, and, of course, Russian vodka! They both Yanks and Rusns exchanged cigarettes and toasted for Victory, Stalin and Roosevelt, for Land-lease, for the Russian and US Air Force, for safe take-offs and landings, etc., and no one of the crew got drunk due to a continuous nervous stress condition from both sides.
Next morning, April 19, 1942, the guys woke up with slight hangover and had breakfast.
After that, they were invited to the HQ. There they had a meeting with a Russian Full Colonel from NKVD (later better known in the USA as notorious KGB), one civilian (Full Colonel Smirnov) and English interpreter Bachantsev from the Far East Major Mil Dep (according to documents of the Central Navy Archives).
The Crew reported that they had come from a “Shangri La” air base and bombed Tokyo.
In the evening, a Li-2 (Ли-2) Mil aircraft took Crew #8 to a certain place.
Since then the Russians who met the guys at Unashi did not see them any more.

Nazarov Boris Petrovich, the last witness of the Crew # 8 landing, is healthy and is still living in Vladivostok.

To be continued.