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Never reported to the American public, a photo-reconnaissance flight over Tokyo took place just three months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Author Dale W. Cox’s newly released Top Secret Flight will tell you for a fact that in February 1942 three hand-picked bomber crews were trained in photo-reconnaissance. These men were to fly modified B-17 aircraft far beyond design safety factors and well over maximum wartime weight limits.
In March 1942 the three B-17s took off from Wright Field, Ohio. Two of the planes were eliminated en route and, after long, exhausting hours in the air, the third crew photographed Tokyo, then flew another 2700 miles to land at an incomplete Navy field at Dutch Harbor. A month later, April 18, 1942, sixteen B-25 bombers were launched from the USS Hornet. The ‘Doolittle Raid’ was on its way to bomb Japan.
The eye-witness, an Army Air Corps Captain in 1941, retired from government service 40 years later. His last job was Director of the famous Lockheed ‘Skunk Works’, builder of the U2 spy plane.
Thanks to Cox this incredible story is finally being shared, but with fictional elements that take it from a historical retelling to pure spy novel excitement and back again.
About the author: Dale W. Cox graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1942 and went to war in the Pacific. In 1957 he set two transcontinental speed records and in 1959 was one of 32 candidates for the Mercury astronaut program. His two novels are based on highly classified information discovered while working for the CIA.
Title: Top Secret Flight
Author: Dale W. Cox
Genre: Historical Fiction
ISBN: 978-1257125227
Publication Date: June 29, 2011
Pages: 435
Price: $22.95
Publisher: Dale Cox
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