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Dedication and Sacrifice: National Aerial Reconnaissance in the Cold War
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Dedication and Sacrifice: National Aerial Reconnaissance in the Cold War

by History and Publications Staff
January 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
9 pages
16m
English
Center for Cryptologic History, NSA
Content preview from Dedication and Sacrifice: National Aerial Reconnaissance in the Cold War
Army
GUARDRAIL
aircraft
?he
first doeumented
case of
an
attempted
shootdown
eame in
Oetoirer 1949, when
$oviet fighters
attempted to
down a U.S"
I3-?9
over
the
Sea
ofJapan;
the
aircraft
eseaped unharrned. Over
the next
decades,
there were
thirty documented
Soviet atlacks
on U"$.
reconnaissance
aircraft. A
tragic
thirteen were suceessful.
During
the
Cold War
period
of 1945-19??,
a total of more
than
forty reconnaissance
aircraft were
shot down in
the European
and
Paciiic
areas.
THX I,958INCTNEI\IT
In
1997
the
U.S.
government
placed
on display
a
C*130
aircraft
to
syrnbolize
all the
losses
in
the reconnaissance program"
The
C-
130 is
a sister
craft to
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