In Poltava on 11 April 1945

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Date of Game Wednesday, April 11, 1945
Location Poltava, Ukraine
Description

The fold3 website has a photo of US Air Force personnel playing baseball at Poltava AFB on April 11, 1945.

American airmen played baseball there in 1944.

Poltava (in the Ukraine; then in the USSR) was a base established by the US near Poltava USSR to fly shuttle bombing missions against German held areas.

Sources

www.fold3.com 

Conversino, "Fighting with the Soviets"

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Found by Bruce Allardice
Entered by Bruce Allardice
First in Location Poltava, Ukraine



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