The Air Force staged a show of power with a flyover featuring a B-2 bomber ahead of the meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska.

Alaska and Russia’s histories are intertwined, nowhere more so than at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, long used for monitoring Soviet threats.

Putin was greeted by a B-2 bomber, as well as F-35 jets as he arrived at the base, while the aircraft conducted a flyover as Trump greeted the Russian leader on the tarmac.

The high-stakes summit at the Anchorage Air Force base comes as the U.S. seeks a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war.

President Richard M. Nixon and Emperor Hirohito of Japan meet Sept. 26, 1971, in Anchorage, in the home of Gen. Robert George Ruegg, commander in chief of the Alaskan Command at Elmendorf Air Force Base. It was the first-ever meeting of a U.S. president and a Japanese monarch. (Anchorage Times photo)

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American officials quickly discovered a major snag in planning for the summit: summertime is peak tourist season in Alaska, and options both available and equipped to host the two world leaders were severely limited.