Pin made in Soviet Russia. The pin shows the Petlyakov Pe-8. The text on the pin reads:”The first Soviet flying fortress”, and:”Flight moscow washington moscow across the atlantic ocean″.
The Petlyakov Pe-8 was a Soviet heavy bomber designed before World War II, and the only four engine bomber the USSR built during the war. Produced in limited numbers, it was used to bomb Berlin in August 1941.
Its primary mission was to attack German airfields, rail yards and other rear area facilities at night, although one was used to fly the People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs (Foreign Minister) Vyacheslav Molotov from Moscow to the United States in 1942.