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American Raiders
The Race to Capture the Luftwaffe’s Secrets
At the close of World War II, Allied forces faced frightening new German secret weapons—buzz bombs, V-2’s, and the first jet fighters. When Hitler’s war machine began to collapse, the race was on to snatch these secrets before the Soviet Red Army found them.

The last battle of World War II, then, was not for military victory but for the technology of the Third Reich. In American Raiders: The Race to Capture the Luftwaffe’s Secrets, Wolfgang W. E. Samuel assembles from official Air Force records and survivors’ interviews the largely untold stories of the disarmament of the once mighty Luftwaffe and of Operation Lusty—the hunt for Nazi technologies.

In April 1945 American armies were on the brink of winning their greatest military victory, yet America’s technological backwardness was shocking when measured against that of the retreating enemy. Senior officers, including the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces Henry Harley “Hap” Arnold, knew all too well the seemingly overwhelming victory was less than it appeared. There was just too much luck involved in its outcome.

Two intrepid American Army Air Forces colonels set out to regain America’s technological edge. One, Harold E. Watson, went after the German jets; the other, Donald L. Putt, went after the Nazis’ intellectual capital—their world-class scientists.

With the help of German and American pilots, Watson brought the jets to America; Putt persevered as well and succeeded in bringing the German scientists to the Army Air Forces’ aircraft test and evaluation center at Wright Field. A young P-38 fighter pilot, Lloyd Wenzel, a Texan of German descent, then turned these enemy aliens into productive American citizens—men who built the rockets that took America to the moon, conquered the sound barrier, and laid the foundation for America’s civil and military aviation of the future.

American Raiders: The Race to Capture the Luftwaffe’s Secrets details the contest won, a triumph that shaped America’s victories in the Cold War.

                                                                                                                                                 

American Raiders The Race to Capture the Luftwaffe’s Secrets 1st Table of contents:

 Abbreviations
1. The Way Things Were—1945
2. The German Jets
3. Jet Encounters
4. The Defiant Few
5. Colonel Harold E. Watson
6. The 1st Tactical Air Force (Provisional)
7. Organizing to Disarm the Luftwaffe
8. Operation Lusty
9. Solving the Japanese Riddle
10. A Mother Lode of Aviation Technology
11. The Secrets of Völkenrode and Kochel
12. The Feudin’ 54th
13. Watson Picks His Team
14. Lager Lechfeld
15. P-47 Jug Pilots
16. Watson’s Whizzers
17. The Merseburg Fan Club
18. Project Seahorse
19. Melun-Villaroche
20. Roast Duck at Aalborg
21. The Arado 234 Caper
22. So Far, So Good
23. The Conquering Hero
24. The Focke-Wulf 190 Tragedy
25. Air Shows and Air Races
26. The Birth of Project Overcast
27. Project Overcast and One Man’s Experience
28. From Overcast to Paperclip
29. How Captain Wenzel Made American Citizens Out of Enemy Aliens
30. The Way Things Changed
Afterword: What Became of All These Good Men?
Notes
Sources
Index

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