CIA Spy Flights over China from Taiwan 1951-1969
Hardback
Publication Date: 30/05/2010
After Mao's communists took control of mainland China in 1949, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency developed an uneasy partnership with the nationalist Chinese government on Taiwan for covert air operations over the mainland dropping agents and propaganda, and collecting signals, imagery and nuclear intelligence. But Communist China's air defences reacted with determination and ingenuity to the unwelcome intruders. Ten of the aircraft B-17s, B-26s, and P-2s were lost and over 100 aircrew killed in this epic yet hardly-known struggle, told in English for the first time. Each chapter is punctuated with vivid, first-hand accounts from the participants Chinese nationalists, Chinese communists, and Americans. The book also describes how during the Vietnam War, America subcontracted many of its covert air operations to the same group of airmen from Taiwan. AUTHOR:
- ISBN:
- 9780764335136
- 9780764335136
- Category:
- Military history
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 30-05-2010
- Publisher:
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x0mm
- Weight:
- 0.86kg
Click 'Notify Me' to get an email alert when this item becomes available
Great!
Click on Save to My Library / Lists
Click on Save to My Library / Lists
Select the List you'd like to categorise as, or add your own
Here you can mark if you have read this book, reading it or want to read
Awesome! You added your first item into your Library
Great! The fun begins.
Click on My Library / My Lists and I will take you there
Click on My Library / My Lists and I will take you there
Reviews
Be the first to review The Black Bats.
Share This Book: