American raiders : the race to capture the Luftwaffe's secrets / Wolfgang W.E. Samuel.
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. T...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover13;
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. The Way Things Were8212;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 V246;lkenrode and Kochel
- 12. The Feudin 54th
- 13. Watson Picks His Team
- 14. Lager Lechfeld
- 15. P-47 Jug Pilots
- 16. Watsons Whizzers
- 17. The Merseburg Fan Club
- 18. Project Seahorse
- 19. Melun-Villaroche
- 20. Roast Duck at Aalborg
- 21. 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 Mans 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.