Memoirs of the Men who Experienced the Legend of the U-2 Spy Plane
by
Gerald McIlmoyle, Linda Rios Bromley
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
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...