| #722828 in Books | Presidio Press | 2001-11-30 | 2001-11-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.91 x5.83l, | File type: PDF | 352 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| captivating Account|By Tony Lesce|This book relates the story of American aerial reconnaissance during the Cold War. It makes it clear that the American government was violating Iron Curtain airspace repeatedly, motivated by an urgent need to get a peek that their military preparedness. The author relates in great details how the various missions were organized, and how the U-2|From Booklist|Peebles recounts in eye-opening detail the history of secret reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union in the 1950s--a breach of international law exposed by the U-2 incident of May 1960 and a pot
In the dark days of the Cold War the American military conducted a secret air war against the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. Flown by a handful of American crews, these photographic and intelligence gathering missions were a well-kept secret and unknown to the world at large. Initially, in the 1940s and 1950s, the Americans used converted bombers and transports to carry out these dangerous operations. The price of failure was high and unsuccessful missions were hushed up...
You easily download any file type for your device.Shadow Flights: America's Secret Airwar Against the Soviet Union: A Cold War History | Curtis Peebles. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
