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Black Cats of Osan
Author | : Rick Bishop |
Publsiher | : Casemate |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2023-09-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781636243542 |
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The story of the top-secret “Black Cats” who undertook dangerous long-duration high-altitude missions to provide intelligence on North Korea during the Cold War. Plying through the darkness at the very limit of the earth’s atmosphere, the U-2’s extrasensory intelligence-gathering sensors quietly intercept and redistribute mountains of information to a highly classified ground site, located at Osan Air Base, Korea. From there, the top-secret intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) products are distributed to the highest levels of command authority within the United States. Although the Dragon Lady has been in continuous service for nearly 70 years, she has always been considered a “National Asset,” with technology so sophisticated that she outlasted her “replacement”—the SR-71—decades ago. Lt. Col. (Ret.) Rick Bishop, a former U-2 pilot, takes the reader deep into the Black World of non-satellite ISR to reveal how a small detachment of 100 hand-selected personnel with only eight pilots and two aircraft became the most reliable and productive air force unit to ever utilize the Dragon Lady during the Cold War and to this day. As second-in-command of Detachment 2 (Det 2) of the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing during the mid-1980s, Rick kept a detailed journal of the daily operations that routinely launched pilots on high-altitude solo missions lasting at least nine hours. Wearing full-pressure suits similar to those utilized by the Shuttle astronauts, these missions took a physiological toll on each pilot who upon return had to coax the Lady, universally known for her treacherous landing characteristics, safely back on the ground along with the often-priceless intelligence-gathering sensors. Although the pilots were the pointy end of the spear, this is also the story of the missions that could not be accomplished without the dedicated effort from enlisted personnel and civilian company tech reps to keep the maintenance-intensive platform in the air. Along with Physiological Support Division personnel, responsible for keeping the pilot alive in their pressure suit environment during emergency situations, as well as numerous other support troops required for logistical and supply support, the unparallel success of Det 2 can only be attributed to the professional pride of the close-knit selectively manned brotherhood known as the Black Cats of Osan.
The Black Cats of Osan
Author | : Rick Bishop |
Publsiher | : Casemate |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-09-30 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1636243533 |
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The Top-Secret "Black Cats" undertook dangerous long-duration high-altitude missions to provide intelligence on North Korea during the Cold War.
The Black Cat Book
Author | : Walter Copeland |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Children's poetry |
ISBN | : OCLC:179239262 |
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The Black Cat
Author | : Richard Powell |
Publsiher | : Candlewick Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Cats |
ISBN | : 0763621080 |
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A homeless little black cat finds a home in this sweet lift-the-flap book containing seven oversized flaps. Full color.
The Black Cat
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 798 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Short stories, American |
ISBN | : PRNC:32101064241720 |
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Black Cats
Author | : Megan Cooley Peterson |
Publsiher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2013-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781476521817 |
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"Simple text and full-color photographs describe black cats and Halloween"--Provided by publisher.
The Last Black Cat
Author | : Eugenios Trivizas |
Publsiher | : Egmont Books (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Cats |
ISBN | : 1405212810 |
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"It was a whisper at first. But then we knew. Black cats were disappearing. Silktail was the first. Then Whiny, Giuseppe, Rameses, Blackie, Lothario, and Bijou…"Island life had been good for the street cats—stealing fish, laying in the sun, singing under the stars. This is the story of dark deeds, cool cats, and The Society of the Superstitious. Get your paws on it! Eugene Trivizas, who has been called the "J.K. Rowling of Greece," is the winner of many national and international prizes. He is the author of more than a hundred books, including an acclaimed collaboration with Helen Oxenbury,The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig.
The Black Cat
Author | : Allan Ahlberg |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0688126790 |
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A little black cat watches the antics of three skeletons sledding in the snow.