The Soviet Air Force played an important role in World War III. While the Soviet Air Force's role in the Korean War had been limited to Soviets piloting MiGs on behalf of North Korea, when the U.S. decided to use atomic weapons against Manchuria on 23 January 1951,, the Soviet Airforce launchded six atomic attacks against U.S. allies from Pechenga: Aberdeen and Norwich in the United Kingdom; Nancy and Rouen in France, and; Augsburg and Bremen in West Germany. This article is a stub because the work is part of a larger, as-of-yet incomplete series.