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Title: Lost Destiny
Subtitle: Joe Kennedy Jr. and the Doomed WWII Mission to Save London
Author: Alan Axelrod
Narrator: Tom Perkins
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-19-15
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: History, Military
Publisher's Summary:
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 50 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.
Critic Reviews:
"A probing, technical exploration of the competition between the two eldest Kennedy brothers that probably drove Joe Jr. to volunteer for his last fatal flying mission." (
Kirkus)
Members Reviews:
Remarkable
This exhaustive dossier is sure to please history and airplane buffs. But if you are looking for biographical information on Joe Kennedy, you will be disappointed. I've never read a biography that contained so little information on its subject. Still, as general WWII flying history there's a great deal of deeply researched information. Absolutely, the reading is top-notch work from Tom Perkins.
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Title: Lost Destiny
Subtitle: Joe Kennedy Jr. and the Doomed WWII Mission to Save London
Author: Alan Axelrod
Narrator: Tom Perkins
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-19-15
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: History, Military
Publisher's Summary:
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 50 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.
Critic Reviews:
"A probing, technical exploration of the competition between the two eldest Kennedy brothers that probably drove Joe Jr. to volunteer for his last fatal flying mission." (
Kirkus)
Members Reviews:
Remarkable
This exhaustive dossier is sure to please history and airplane buffs. But if you are looking for biographical information on Joe Kennedy, you will be disappointed. I've never read a biography that contained so little information on its subject. Still, as general WWII flying history there's a great deal of deeply researched information. Absolutely, the reading is top-notch work from Tom Perkins.