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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.