Above & Beyond
Casey Sherman & Michael J. Tougias . CENTRAL 973.922 s5531a 2018
Fascinating, as in spent too much time and deferred sleep reading ths
- Histories leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis
- U2 pilots and a little aircraft development
Gerald McIlmoyle survived two SAMS
- Rudy Anderson did not
- A lot of Kennedy history, including PT109
- Addison disease
- Long meetings, mostly secret before scary TV speech
- Bombers moved, invasion prepared
LeMay and top brass pushed for invasion, mistakes could have triggered war
- later, 1963 commencement speech at American University, "greatest speech since Roosevelt" said Khrushchev
- Khrushchev backed down and withdrew to avoid WW3
- Quid pro quo withdrawal of Redstone missiles in Turkey
- Missile subs remained
- Quid pro quo withdrawal of Redstone missiles in Turkey