= 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