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On August 12, 1944, Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., heir to one of America's most attractive 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 revised B-24 Liberator bomber. The munitions he was holding that day were 50 percent more powerful than TNT. Kennedy's mission was part of Operation Aphrodite/Task Anvil, a needy American work to save London from a rainfall of German V-1 and V-2 missiles. Your choice to work with these daring but crude precursors to modern-day drones against German V-weapon release sites originated from Air Corps high demand. Lieutenant Basic Jimmy Doolittle, daring head of the amazing 1942 Tokyo Raid, among others concocted an idea to install radio control equipment in "war-weary" bombers, load up them with twelve a great deal of high explosives, and travel them by handy remote control straight into the concrete German release sites - focuses on too much to be damaged by normal bombs. The catch was that live pilots were had a need to get these soaring bombs off the bottom and going toward their focuses on. Joe Jr., was the first naval aviator to travel such a mission. And - in the largest man-made explosion before Hiroshima - it killed him. Alan Axelrod's Lost Destiny is a exceptional exploration of the origin of today's controversial military drones and a searing and remarkable report of heroism, WWII, and the Kennedy dynasty that might have been.
