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