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Midnight Flyboys - audiobook
Midnight Flyboys - audiobook
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The untold history of a top-secret World War II operation in the run-up to D-Day in which American flyers and Allied spies supported the French resistance by carrying out some of the wars most daring cloak-and-dagger operations. Classified for more than fifty years, this remarkable chapter of military history is an astonishing tale of patriotism, courage, and sacrifice.In 1943, the OSSprecursor to the CIAcame up with a plan to increase its support to the French resistance forces that were fighting the Nazis in occupied France. To start, the OSS recruited some of the best American bomber pilots and crews to a secret airfield twenty miles west of London and briefed them on the intended mission. Given a choice to stay or leave, every airman volunteered for what became known as Operation Carpetbagger. Their dangerous plan called for a new kind of flying: taking their B-24 Liberator bombers in the middle of the night across the English Channel and down to extremely low altitudes in Nazi-occupied France to find drop zones in dark fields. On the ground, resistance members waited to receive steel containers filled with everything from rifles and hand grenades to medicine and bicycle tires. Some nights, the flyers also dropped Allied secret agents by parachute to assist the French partisans. Though their story remained classified for more than fifty years, the Carpetbaggers ultimately received a Presidential Unit Citation from the US military, which declared: it is safe to say that no group of this size has made a greater contribution to the war effort. Along with other members of the wartime OSS, they were also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Based on exclusive research and interviews, this absorbing (Michael Beschloss, New York Times bestselling author) story of these heroic flyersand of the brave secret agents and resistance leaders they aidedcan now be told. Written in Bruce Hendersons spellbinding (USA TODAY) prose, Midnight Flyboys is an astonishing tale of patriotism, courage, and sacrifice.
The untold history of a top-secret World War II operation in the run-up to D-Day in which American flyers and Allied spies supported the French resistance by carrying out some of the wars most daring cloak-and-dagger operations. Classified for more than fifty years, this remarkable chapter of military history is an astonishing tale of patriotism, courage, and sacrifice.In 1943, the OSSprecursor to the CIAcame up with a plan to increase its support to the French resistance forces that were fighting the Nazis in occupied France. To start, the OSS recruited some of the best American bomber pilots and crews to a secret airfield twenty miles west of London and briefed them on the intended mission. Given a choice to stay or leave, every airman volunteered for what became known as Operation Carpetbagger. Their dangerous plan called for a new kind of flying: taking their B-24 Liberator bombers in the middle of the night across the English Channel and down to extremely low altitudes in Nazi-occupied France to find drop zones in dark fields. On the ground, resistance members waited to receive steel containers filled with everything from rifles and hand grenades to medicine and bicycle tires. Some nights, the flyers also dropped Allied secret agents by parachute to assist the French partisans. Though their story remained classified for more than fifty years, the Carpetbaggers ultimately received a Presidential Unit Citation from the US military, which declared: it is safe to say that no group of this size has made a greater contribution to the war effort. Along with other members of the wartime OSS, they were also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Based on exclusive research and interviews, this absorbing (Michael Beschloss, New York Times bestselling author) story of these heroic flyersand of the brave secret agents and resistance leaders they aidedcan now be told. Written in Bruce Hendersons spellbinding (USA TODAY) prose, Midnight Flyboys is an astonishing tale of patriotism, courage, and sacrifice.
| Kategoria: | Obcojęzyczne |
| Język: | Angielski |
| Zabezpieczenie: | brak |
| ISBN: | 978-1-6681-0186-5 |
