You gents do understand that the story is fiction as a back story for a cartoon airplane squadron don't you?
All the photos come from a book call "Cobras over the Tundra" which is about the pilots who flew the lend lease birds to Russia. Those aren't Americans who flew combat in the Soviet Union.
It was a nice effort though
One of the great joys of my Airwarrior days was the fictional history I built for the Nomads from their initial days forming at Selfridge to the ferry flight via greenland and eventual basing at RAF Kliffsedge, where the 38 augering first began to occur