Aphrodite: Desperate Mission

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970, 1970. Book Club Edition. 328 pages: illustrations, map; 22 cm. "Mission Aphrodite was ... an aerial 'Guns of Navarone' that called for volunteers to fly ... B-17 drone planes, crammed with the most powerful load of high explosives ever flowin in wartime and guided by remote control from mother ships, straight into the mouths of the caves from which the rockets were ostensibly launched. The art of flying drones and the automatic arming of tons of explosives was still in its infancy, and American pilots became unknowing guiea pigs on combat runs ... Aphrodite flights laid the groundwork for guided missiles ..."--Book jacket. Fine in near fine lightly rubbed & soiled jacket now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN:

A very crisp desirable copy. "Heroic and tragic, brilliant and stupid, the full story of Aphrodite--a real-life Catch-22--is a powerful exposition of military thinking and the bravery (and lunacy) of war."--Book jacketDrone aircraft. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Opérations aériennes. Military operations, Aerial Time: 1939-1945