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Russian and U. S. crew members aboard a U.S. Douglas C-47 Dakota military transport airplane constructed in the early 1940s, lands amidst heavy rain after a transcontinental flight on the Alaska-Siberia route, at Yemelyanovo International Airport outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, August 4, 2015. The flight was made to commemorate the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany during World War Two, when military planes from the U.S. were directed as part of the Lend-Lease state programme from the town of Nome in Alaska through Siberia to provide supplies for the front lines of battles being fought by the Red Army, local media reported. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
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