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U-2 over Cuba

Aircraft Intell 5 Min Read

U-2C spyplane: The total number of U-2s built is unknown but is around 100, of which a proportion was shot down. Major Rudolf Anderson’s plane was shot down over Banes, Cuba, in October 1962 by a Soviet launched SA-2 missile, and at least nine were destroyed by the Chinese. U-2 flights over China, which began in 1960 and concluded in…

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THE CARPETBAGGER PROJECT I

The major USAAF effort to supply the Resistance movements and secret armies in Europe began in the summer of 1943 under the codename ‘Carpetbagger’, which someone had lifted from the annals of the American Civil War. At first the Americans had been as unprepared for Resistance support as the British…

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THE CARPETBAGGER PROJECT II

Jedburgh teams suit up in England prior to boarding a ‘Carpetbagger’ B-24. The crew of the 406th Bomb Squadron standing in front of the Liberator B-24 “Brer Rabbit” which dropped the “VIS” Team during the night from 1st to 2 June 1944. Standing up (left to right): Clinton Rabbit (Pilot)…

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Germany under Pressure 1943 Part II

Hitler had already summoned the leaders of Hungary, Romania and Slovakia to meetings to pull them into line, and Bluecher demanded that President Ryti, re-elected on 15 February 1943, make the same journey, but Ryti refused. Germany showed its displeasure by temporarily recalling Bluecher, then, from the beginning of June,…

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Germany under Pressure 1943 Part IV

Whatever the means that secured them, the improvements in Soviet Intelligence enabled Stavka’s planning for the summer to proceed more or less in parallel with the German. However, the planners were soon confronted by the disconcerting discovery that the new German Tiger I heavy tank was far superior to their…

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Operation Mars II

The fourth item of evidence is in the memoirs of Army General A.I. Gribkov, who as a captain on the General Staff took part in ‘Mars’. The corps he was attached to (Solomatin’s) fought for several days in encirclement, and after the remnants of it had managed to break through…

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Signals Intelligence – Western Front – 1914

Capt. Georges Ladoux: The head of French counter-espionage during World War I, and Mata Hari’s faux spy-master The Miracle of the Marne On the Western Front, a German attack was made through Belgium as part of the Schlieffen Plan, which was designed to sweep onward through northern France to crush…

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Military Communication, the Korean and Vietnam Wars (1945-1975)

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In the mid-1930s, the German high command was dominated by the view that the main…

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The influence of aviation on intelligence activities was not limited to photographing the territory of…