Lost Black Cats (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781418499181)

On May 1, 1960, a U-2 was shot down over Russia and its pilot, Gary Powers, was captured, followed by Premier Khrushchev using the long-waited summit meeting in Paris as a public platform to denounce U.S. intrusion on Russian air space and to demand an apology from President Eisenhower. All these events made U-2 a world-renowned spyplane. This extraordinary high altitude reconnaissance aircraft had also been used over China and her vicinity. A US-ROC joint entity (Black Cat Squadron) was organized to conduct the operation from Taiwan for fifteen years. Five U-2s were shot down by Communist surface-to-air missiles. Two of the Nationalist Chinese pilots survived the missile explosion, yet were severely wounded, and then captured by the People

Author: H. Mike Hua, Xijun Hua
ISBN-10: 1418499188
ISBN-13: 9781418499181
Publisher: Authorhouse
Language: English
Published: 03/11/2005
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d