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1 online resource (1 audio file) |
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113000 |
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digital rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
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On August 12, 1944, Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., heir to one of America's most glamorous fortunes, son of the disgraced former ambassador to Great Britain, and big brother to freshly minted PT-109 hero JFK, hoisted himself up into a highly modified B-24 Liberator bomber. The munitions he was carrying that day were fifty percent more powerful than TNT. Kennedy's mission was part of Operation Aphrodite/Project Anvil, a desperate American effort to rescue London from a rain of German V-1 and V-2 missiles. The decision to use these bold but crude precursors to modern-day drones against German V-weapon launch sites came from Air Corps high command. Lieutenant General Jimmy Doolittle, daring leader of the spectacular 1942 Tokyo Raid, and others concocted a plan to install radio control equipment in "war-weary" bombers, pack them with a dozen tons of high explosives, and fly them by remote control directly into the concrete German launch sites-targets too hard to be destroyed by conventional bombs. The catch was that live pilots were needed to get these flying bombs off the ground and headed toward their targets. Joe Jr. was the first naval aviator to fly such a mission. And-in the biggest man-made explosion before Hiroshima-it killed him. Alan Axelrod's Lost Destiny is a rare exploration of the origin of today's controversial military drones as well as a searing and unforgettable story of heroism, WWII, and the Kennedy dynasty that might have been. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Read by Tom Perkins. |
| Summary |
Looks at the American bombing mission to save London from German missile attacks by attacking launch sites with radio-controlled bombers filled with tons of high explosives, and how it took the life of Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1915-1944.
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Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1915-1944 -- Death and burial.
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Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1915-1944. |
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United States. Navy -- Biography.
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United States. Navy. |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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1939-1945 |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France.
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Air pilots, Military -- United States -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Biography.
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Air pilots, Military. |
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Military campaigns. |
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Military operations, Aerial -- American. |
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France. |
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United States. |
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Audiobooks.
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Streaming Hoopla eaudio. |
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Biography.
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| Added Author |
Perkins, Tom (Sound engineer), narrator.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Axelrod, Alan, 1952- Lost destiny : Joe Kennedy Jr. and the doomed WWII mission to save London [Old Saybrook, Connecticut] : Tantor Audio, [2015] 9781494507770 (NjBwBT)bl2016045329 (OCoLC)907205816 |
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9781494527778 : $49.95 |
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1494527774 : $49.95 |
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