At that time, Germany was preparing to cross the channel, and the fighter planes were visiting every day, and the British Royal Air Force could not wait, and immediately asked for 650 P-39 fighters, which were renamed P-400 (or "flying snake" Mk I) after modification.

However, when Britain sent pilots to the United States to test fly the aircraft, they immediately changed their minds.

The British soon discovered that the P-39 was almost useless except for its firepower, so the British soon cancelled most of the orders for the Flying Snake, and as a result, a large number of Flying Snake fighters were free.

The Bell company was quite depressed, and no one wanted these planes, and they ate soil in the company's open-air tarmac and became surplus materials.

This time, it was the opportunity to throw the surplus supplies to the Soviet Union.

Can the USSR do without? Each of them is chosen.

Roosevelt's words made many people present nod, not only helped the Soviet Union, but also emptied the remaining supplies, and it was also leased to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union would have to repay its debts in the future, which was an absolute win.

"Then the matter is settled." Roosevelt said: "The main thing now is to transport supplies to the Soviet Union, and in our current situation, we can only go to the former Soviet Union by the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean routes." ”

The situation in the United States is not good now, and with the deterioration of the situation in the Pacific, it will be difficult for the American fleet to swagger in the Pacific Ocean and send it directly to the Soviet Far East.

The United States can only send it to the western regions of the Soviet Union by going through the Arctic Ocean, but fortunately, now that summer is coming, the Arctic Ocean route is safer.

The United States provided support to the Soviet Union much earlier than in history, and this was entirely due to the dire changes in the situation.

When Britain, the only free base in Europe, also fell, the United States could not get involved in Europe at all, Germany's strong military strength made the United States very jealous, once Germany conquered the Soviet Union, then the United States could not be alone even in the New World.

The United States had to help the USSR!

North-western corner of the USSR, ice-free port, Murmansk.

This is a strange place, geographically speaking, it has penetrated more than 300 kilometers into the Arctic Circle, and it is an authentic Arctic port city.

Therefore, there is a common phenomenon in the Arctic here, which is the polar night and the polar day, and there is a long night of one and a half months in a year, and there are two long days of the month.

Generally speaking, in the Arctic, it should be covered with snow and ice, but here due to the influence of the North Atlantic Current, although the temperature is very low, the harbor never freezes all year round, and the sea temperature does not drop below 3 degrees Celsius even in the coldest months, so it can be navigated all year round.

Therefore, the excellent geographical conditions here have become a natural harbor in the north, and the nearby Severomorsk (later called, now it should be called Vaniga) is the headquarters of the Soviet Northern Fleet.

Until now, the Northern Fleet of the USSR was just an ordinary small fleet, it was not large, and due to its geographical location, in this world war, the Northern Fleet participated in very few wars.

Although it does not freeze all year round, it is too far north to have much value, especially when Petersburg is taken and the Finnish army advances eastward, which will become an island at any time and will not be of much value.

Apart from sporadic battles with Finland, there weren't many outbreaks of fighting here.

It's been quiet all the time, with only fishing boats coming and going, and no one noticing the boats that don't fly any flags as they pass through Iceland and get here.

At this time, at the naval aviation base in Vaniga, the regiment commander Boris Feokdisovich Safonov, with some of his own carefully selected pilots, waited here with great wait.

A large number of planes were transported by ship, and now, there are already a small number of P-39 fighters, piloted by American pilots, flying directly here.

On the one hand, it was to let the Soviet pilots get these fighters as soon as possible, and on the other hand, after the arrival of these American pilots, they would serve as instructors to help the Soviet pilots become familiar with these planes and become combat-ready as soon as possible.

Safonov was excited, he turned out to be an Air Force pilot, transferred to the Navy a few years ago, and is now the head of the 78 Fighter Aviation Regiment in the Navy.

Their aircraft was originally the most backward I-16 fighter, and with this backward aircraft, he once shot down the BF109 of the Germans.

Although it was later found that these BF109s were pilots for hire and were not planes of German pilots, he was still the pride of Soviet naval aviation, and those who were able to shoot down BF109s were the best.

However, the backwardness of the aircraft is an indisputable fact, and now, the aviation unit to which he belongs will receive these fighters in the first batch, for them, of course, that is the most exciting.

In addition to them, there are several specialists of the Air Force Scientific Research Institute, including Chief Engineers Rabkin, Usatov, Ivanov and Nikisin, as well as test pilot Grofastov.

After learning the news that the first batch of US planes was about to arrive, they came here in the hope that they would conduct test flights of these fighters as soon as possible, compile flight outlines, determine flight qualities, and create a basis for equipping troops in large quantities as soon as possible.

After all, in the past, it was the Soviets that produced their own aircraft, and this was the first time that such an imported product had been imported.

They raised their heads and looked at the sky, and at this time, above the sea in the northwest, three silver warplanes were coming towards them.

On the first long plane, pilot Roy looked at the base that was about to arrive in the distance, and his heart was surging.

Just a few years ago, Roy, although a veteran flying bird, did not serve in the military, he was a flight instructor at an aero club.

By now, he still remembered that the most impressive pilot he had ever taken was Rick, a German pilot with a unique mastery of flying.

Later, Rick left, returned to Germany, and in response to Hitler's call at that time, he was said to have entered the German Navy and became a naval aviation.

And now, as the war progresses, the United States is also involved, and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Roy joined the American army, this time as a flight instructor, flying P-39 fighter jets to the Soviet Union.

The United States and Germany have entered a state of hostility, and Roy thought of the young pilot, I wonder if the next time they meet, will it be on the battlefield?

"Attention, the front is about to arrive at the Vaniga base, ready to enter the landing route." Roy, as the leader of the team, shouted to the wingman behind him.