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The Black Bats: CIA Spy Flights over China from Taiwan 1951-1969
Chris Pocock
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Description for The Black Bats: CIA Spy Flights over China from Taiwan 1951-1969
Hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages, over 120 color/bw images. BIC Classification: HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 688. CIA Spy Flights Over China from Taiwan 1951-1969. 144 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HBW. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 25. Weight: 692.
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 a 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 a B-17s, B-26s, and P-2s a 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 ... Read more
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 a 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 a B-17s, B-26s, and P-2s a 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
688g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764335136
SKU
V9780764335136
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