Photo of Major General of the US Air Force L. Brereton with a Soviet pilot, 1943

The original press photo is in excellent collector's condition. In the photo, an American general stands next to a Soviet senior lieutenant. The size is 170*215 mm. Small paper jams. Guarantee of authenticity.

Lewis Hyde Brereton (June 21, 1890 — July 20, 1967) was a pioneer of military aviation and a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force. A 1911 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, he began his military career as a U.S. Army officer in the U.S. Coast Artillery Corps before World War I, and then spent the rest of his service as a professional aviator. Brereton was one of the few senior American commanders in World War II who served continuously in theaters of war from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the German surrender, and he saw combat in more theaters than any other senior officer. He began World War II with the rank of Major General, Commander of the Far Eastern Air Force in the Philippines, and ended it with the rank of Lieutenant General, Commander of the First Allied Airborne Army in Germany. Brereton commanded troops in four controversial events of the war: the ground destruction of most of the U.S. Air Force in the Philippines, Operation Tidal Wave, Operation Cobra, and Operation Market Garden. Brereton was one of the first U.S. Army military pilots to be assigned to the U.S. Signal Corps Aviation Unit in September 1912. He was also one of five officers (the others were Air Force General Henry H. Arnold, Major Generals Frank P. Lamb and Benjamin D. Foulois, as well as Brigadier General Thomas De W. Milling), who were in the United States Air Force and all their predecessors, but the only one who was on permanent active duty (Arnold, Lamb, Foulois and Milling were retired when the USAF was created).