{"product_id":"books-lost-black-cats-by-h-mike-hua","title":"Lost Black Cats","description":"On May 1, 1960, a U-2 was shot down over Russia and its pilot, Gary Powers, was captured, followed by Premier Khrushchev using the long-waited summit meeting in Paris as a public platform to denounce U.S. intrusion on Russian air space and to demand an apology from President Eisenhower. All these events made U-2 a world-renowned spyplane. This extraordinary high altitude reconnaissance aircraft had also been used over China and her vicinity. A US-ROC joint entity (Black Cat Squadron) was organized to conduct the operation from Taiwan for fifteen years. Five U-2s were shot down by Communist surface-to-air missiles. Two of the Nationalist Chinese pilots survived the missile explosion, yet were severely wounded, and then captured by the People","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669602197777,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781418499174.jpg?v=1781509475","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-lost-black-cats-by-h-mike-hua","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}