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Chapter 5
U-2 Operations After May 1960
U-2 Operations in Latin America .................................................. 197
U-2 Support to the Bay of Pigs Invasion .................................. 197
Aerial Refueling Capability for the U-2 .................................... 198
U-2 Coverage During the Cuban Missile Crisis .......................... 199
U-2s Over South America ....................................................... 211
U-2 Operations in Asia ............................................................. 211
Detachment C and the Indonesian Revolt of 1958 ..................... 211
China Offshore Islands Dispute of 1958 .................................... 215
U-2 Support for DDP Operations in Tibet .................................. 216
U-2Cs for Detachment C ......................................................... 217
U-2 Crash in Thailand ............................................................. 219
End of Detachment C Operations ............................................ 219
Detachment G Missions Over Laos and North Vietnam .............. 221
New Detachment on Taiwan .................................................... 222
Use of Detachment H Aircraft by US Pilots .............................. 230
U-2s in India ........................................................................... 231
Increasing Responsibilities, Inadequate Resources in Asia ......... 233
Advanced ECM Equipment for Detachment H ........................... 237
Use of Infrared Scanner Over PRC Nuclear Plants .................... 238
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The End of U-2 Overflights of Mainland China ......................... 242
Peripheral Missions by Detachment H ...................................... 244
Operation SCOPE SHIELD Over North Vietnam ....................... 246
Improvements in U-2 Technology .............................................. 247
Modification of U-2s for Aircraft Carrier Deployment ............... 247
Use of Carrier-Based U-2 To Film a French Nuclear Test Site ... 249
A New Version of the U-2 ....................................................... 251
Replacement of the Original U-2s With U-2Rs ........................ 253
The Final Years of the U-2 ....................................................... 253
Support to Other Agencies ...................................................... 254
Overseas Deployment Exercises and Missions .......................... 255
The Phaseout of the Office of Special Activities ....................... 257
Chapter 6
The U-2’s Intended Successor: Project OXCART, 1956-1968
The Evaluation of Designs for a Successor to the U-2 ................ 260
Competition Between Lockheed and Convair ............................. 267
The Selection of the Lockheed Design ...................................... 270
Efforts To Reduce the A-12’s Radar Cross Section .................... 274
The OXCART Contract ............................................................. 277
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