Top-Secret Project Zebra was/is the only time in history that Soviet Airmen were trained in America by Americans.
Until now.
Project Zebra was declassified on December 31, 2012, and remains one of WWII\'s last never-been-told stories.
The Soviet and American teams shared experiences that created bonds of trust and mutual respect, despite their language barriers and cultural differences -- something that might serve us well to model during these uncertain Russian-American moments.
It became a historic human event.
Project Zebra was more than a military mission.
There, 11 hand-picked Naval officers befriended and trained 300+ Soviet Airmen over a period of 18 months before the planes were dispatched to the Atlantic and Pacific theaters where they destroyed numerous Nazi U-Boats and Japanese submarines without losing a single plane.
Incredibly, 185 of these huge, heavily-armed PBN-Nomad, painted with bright Red Army stars, were then ferried to the sleepy, patriotic town of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, without a single media leak.
Their mission: to fly a state-of-the-art amphibious warplane produced in Philadelphia.
Top-Secret Project Zebra was/is the only time in history that Soviet Airmen were trained in America by Americans
