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