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American raiders : the race to capture the Luftwaffe's secrets / / Wolfgang W.E. Samuel



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Autore: Samuel Wolfgang W. E Visualizza persona
Titolo: American raiders : the race to capture the Luftwaffe's secrets / / Wolfgang W.E. Samuel Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2004
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 493 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 940.54/8673
Soggetto topico: 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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-484) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 VoĢˆlkenrode 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 Good Men?; Notes; Sources; Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: American raiders  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-48487-7
9786612484872
1-60473-136-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816430103321
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