Название: Remembering the Dragon Lady: Memoirs of the Men who Experienced the Legend of the U-2 Spy Plane
Автор: Gerald McIlmoyle, Linda Rios Bromley
Издательство: Helion and Company
ISBN: 1907677208
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 8,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

With heightened tensions mounting in the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower's request for more accurate intelligence information on the Soviet Union was the spark that ignited the U-2 project. Modified USAF bombers began overflights of the Soviet Union in 1951, but existing lower flying aircraft in the US inventory were vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire and a number of cross-border flights were shot down.