03762nam 22006734a 450 991081643010332120200520144314.01-282-48487-797866124848721-60473-136-2(CKB)1000000000484959(EBL)515645(OCoLC)219645190(SSID)ssj0000102370(PQKBManifestationID)11133147(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102370(PQKBWorkID)10071928(PQKB)10044162(MiAaPQ)EBC515645(OCoLC)826512683(MdBmJHUP)muse13693(Au-PeEL)EBL515645(CaPaEBR)ebr10218408(EXLCZ)99100000000048495920031023d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican raiders the race to capture the Luftwaffe's secrets /Wolfgang W.E. Samuel1st ed.Jackson University Press of Mississippic20041 online resource (xvii, 493 pages) illustrationsDescription based upon print version of record.1-57806-649-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-484) and index.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-Villaroche20. 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 Good Men?; Notes; Sources; IndexWorld 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 theAeronautics, MilitaryResearchUnited StatesHistory20th centuryTechnology transferGermanyHistory20th centuryTechnology transferUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945ScienceWorld War, 1939-1945TechnologyAeronautics, MilitaryResearchHistoryTechnology transferHistoryTechnology transferHistoryWorld War, 1939-1945Science.World War, 1939-1945Technology.940.54/8673Samuel Wolfgang W. E1110337MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816430103321American raiders4078195UNINA