Silent warriors, incredible courage : the declassified stories of Cold War reconnaissance flights and the men who flew them /

The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 took the American military by surprise. Rushing to respond, the United States and its allies developed a selective overflight program to gather intelligence. Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage is a history of the Cold War overflights of the Soviet Union,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Samuel, Wolfgang W. E. (Author)
Other Authors:	Hall, R. Cargill (author of foreword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
Subjects:	United States. > Air Force > Airmen > Interviews. Aerial reconnaissance, American. Aerial observation (Military science) > History > 20th century. Cold War > History.

Table of Contents:

When peace came to America (1945)
The peace that wouldn't take (1947)
More secret than the Manhattan Project (1952)
To the Yalu River and beyond (1950)
'Honey Bucket Honshos' of the 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron (1952)
The 19th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (1955)
The incredible RF-86F sabre jet (1952-1955)
Remembering Major Rudolph 'Rudy' Anderson (1953-1955)
The last hurrah of the 'Wild Bunch' (1954-1955)
The short-lived RB-57A 'Heart Throb' program (1955-1956)
The RB-57A-1 Heart Throb: a challenging plane to fly (1955-1956)
A P2V-7 Neptune surviving the Czechoslovak border (1956)
Franz Josef land (1952)
Teamwork: P2V and RB-50E (1952)
Come the B/RB-47 Stratojet (1952)-- Challenging the Russian bear (1954)
Slick Chick RF-100AS (1955-1956)
Project home run: RB-47S over Siberia (1956)
Fate is the hunter: the shootdown of RB-47H 53-4281 over the Barents Sea (1960)
The RB-57D that killed the SENSIT program (1956)
The Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of a raven (1962)
The last flight of RB-47H 53-4290 over the sea of Japan (1964)
An unintentional overflight of East Germany (1964)
The reasons why (1948-1960)
The price we paid (1945-1993).