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UNINA9910452233903321 |
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Samuel Wolfgang W. E |
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American raiders [[electronic resource] ] : the race to capture the Luftwaffe's secrets / / Wolfgang W.E. Samuel |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2004 |
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1-282-48487-7 |
9786612484872 |
1-60473-136-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (512 p.) |
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Aeronautics, Military - Research - United States - History - 20th century |
Technology transfer - Germany - History - 20th century |
Technology transfer - United States - History - 20th century |
World War, 1939-1945 - Science |
World War, 1939-1945 - Technology |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-484) and index. |
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Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. The Way Things Were-1945; 2. The German Jets; 3. Jet Encounters; 4. The Defiant Few; 5. Colonel Harold E. Watson; 6. The 1st Tactical Air Force (Provisional); 7. Organizing to Disarm the Luftwaffe; 8. Operation Lusty; 9. Solving the Japanese Riddle; 10. A Mother Lode of Aviation Technology; 11. The Secrets of Völkenrode and Kochel; 12. The Feudin' 54th; 13. Watson Picks His Team; 14. Lager Lechfeld; 15. P-47 Jug Pilots; 16. Watson's Whizzers; 17. The Merseburg Fan Club; 18. Project Seahorse; 19. Melun-Villaroche |
20. Roast Duck at Aalborg21. The Arado 234 Caper; 22. So Far, So Good; 23. The Conquering Hero; 24. The Focke-Wulf 190 Tragedy; 25. Air Shows and Air Races; 26. The Birth of Project Overcast; 27. Project Overcast and One Man's Experience; 28. From Overcast to Paperclip; 29. How Captain Wenzel Made American Citizens Out of Enemy Aliens; 30. The Way Things Changed; Afterword: What Became of All These |
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Good Men?; Notes; Sources; Index |
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World War II ̈ Cold War-->. At the close of World War II, Allied forces faced frightening new German secret weapons--buzz bombs, V-2s, and the first jet fighters. When Hitler's war machine began to collapse, the race was on to snatch these secrets before the Soviet Red Army found them. The last battle of World War II, then, was not for military victory but for the technology of the Third Reich. In American Raiders: The Race to Capture the Luftwaffe's Secrets Wolfgang Samuel assembles from official Air Force records and survivors' interviews the largely untold stories of the disarmament of the |
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UNINA9910782506703321 |
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Autore |
Avakov Alexander V |
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Quality of Life, Balance of Powers, and Nuclear Weapons [[electronic resource] ] : A Statistical Yearbook for Statesmen and Citizens (2008) |
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New York, : Algora Publishing, 2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (326 p.) |
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Armed forces |
Economic indicators |
Health Status Indicators |
Nuclear weapons |
Quality of life |
Social indicators |
Business & Economics |
Economic History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Introduction; 1. Quality of Life; 2. Balance of Power; 3. Developed Market Economies; 4. Economic History, 1500-2005; Appendix: Methodology; References |
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This statistical annual presents fundamental data in four sections: (1) Quality of Life, (2) Balance of Power, (3) Developed Market Economies since 1960, and (4) Economic History since 1500. It contains data that is generally not available elsewhere. Sections 1 and 2 give statistics for 230 countries. The World Bank and Encyclopedia Britannica provide statistical data for a maximum of about 160 countries. The actual number of countries in World Bank statistical tables is even smaller. The CIA World Factbook gives data for about 230 countries but that data is limited in scope and is imprecise. |
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