Salvaged In Siberia: A Historic U.S. Aircraft Gets A New Lease On Life
- By Current Time
A U.S.-made transport plane, supplied to the Soviet Union during World War II, went down in the Siberian tundra in 1947 and remained there for nearly 70 years. Now it's being restored in Krasnoyarsk by technicians and historians who want to share its dramatic wartime and postwar legacy with the public.