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Lost Black Cats
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(Buch) |
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i.d.R. innert 7-14 Tagen versandfertig |
Veröffentlichung: |
März 2005
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Genre: |
Philosophie |
ISBN: |
9781418499174 |
EAN-Code:
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9781418499174 |
Verlag: |
Authorhouse |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 229 mm / B 152 mm / D 14 mm |
Gewicht: |
365 gr |
Seiten: |
220 |
Zus. Info: |
Paperback |
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Inhalt: |
On May 1, 1960, a U-2 was shot down over Russia and its pilot, Gary Powers, was captured, followed by Premier Khrushchev using the long-waited summit meeting in Paris as a public platform to denounce U.S. intrusion on Russian air space and to demand an apology from President Eisenhower. All these events made U-2 a world-renowned spyplane.
This extraordinary high altitude reconnaissance aircraft had also been used over China and her vicinity. A US-ROC joint entity (Black Cat Squadron) was organized to conduct the operation from Taiwan for fifteen years. Five U-2s were shot down by Communist surface-to-air missiles. Two of the Nationalist Chinese pilots survived the missile explosion, yet were severely wounded, and then captured by the People |
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