Photograph: Office of War Information. B-24 Liberator, 1942, Churchill and the Great Republic (A Library of Congress Interactive Exhibition, Text Version)

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Image: Office of War Information. B-24 Liberator, 1942

Office of War Information. B-24 Liberator, 1942
Shown here is the noisy B-24 Liberator medium bomber in which Churchill and Averell Harriman traveled to and from Moscow to meet Stalin. It was on this plane that two men passed the scribbled notes as a means of communication.

Object Details:
Photograph. W. Averell Harriman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (180)

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