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Author Peebles sets these clandestine operations against the larger background of the ideological struggle between the US and USSR and draws on previously top secret Soviet and U.S. documents.All rights reserved. The advent of satellite photography obviated airplane-borne and balloon-borne cameras, but hardly the interest

Title	:	Shadow Flights: America's Secret Air War Against the Soviet Union
Author	:	Curtis Peebles
Rating	:	4.89 (754 Votes)
Asin	:	0891417001
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	368Pages
Publish Date	:	2014-6-15
Language	:	English

Author Peebles sets these clandestine operations against the larger background of the ideological struggle between the US and USSR and draws on previously top secret Soviet and U.S. documents.

All rights reserved. The advent of satellite photography obviated airplane-borne and balloon-borne cameras, but hardly the interest of military-aviation buffs, who will greatly appreciate the particulars Peebles reveals in this fully researched, dramatic, now-it-can-be-told tome. Such was the fear of a nuclear Pearl Harbor that Truman and Eisenhower both deemed those brazen violations of secrecy-shrouded Soviet territory a dire necessity. 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 potentially deadly chapter of the cold war. The type of plane initially used was proven vulnerable to air defense after being shot up in a 1954 air battle, and so began development of the high-flying eye-in-the-sky that was code lettered "U" for "utility plane." The letter didn't fool the Soviets, however, and they tracked most of the U-2 missions. Gilbert TaylorCopyright © Amer

Curtis Peebles is a writer and historian specialising in aviation. His other books include Dark Eagles and Watch the Skies.

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