ISR Audio Tour Part 1 By cover art

ISR Audio Tour Part 1

By: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
Listen for free

  • Summary

  • The National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) History Office created this tour to focus on the intelligence lessons taught through the museum's collection.
    DVIDSHub.net
    Show more Show less
Episodes
  • ISR Tour: N1K2 George

    ISR Tour: N1K2 George
    Jul 30 2015
    After being brought back from the Pacific Theater, this George went to a children’s playground in San Diego, California. The museum received it in 1959 and in 2000 the museum began an extensive, eight-year restoration. They found serial numbers from four different aircraft during the disassembly. This beautiful restoration either came from several different aircraft brought back to the U.S. for exploitation after the war, or from the Japanese putting several aircraft together during the war. The serial number 5312 was most common and is now the number cited. This concludes Part 1 of the of the Intelligence Guide to the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
    Show more Show less
    Less than 1 minute
  • ISR Tour: B-29

    ISR Tour: B-29
    Jul 30 2015
    The B-29’s photo-reconnaissance capabilities yielded what Major General Haywood Hansell called, “probably the greatest…single contribution…in the air war with Japan.” The Superfortress’ photo-reconnaissance configuration was the F-13A. On 1 November 1944, one of the two F-13A aircraft that arrived from the U.S. just two days before flew from Saipan to Tokyo. Captain John Steakley’s aircraft flew over Tokyo at 32,000 feet for 35 minutes taking 7,000 images. A Japanese fighter approached the F-13, but did not attack it. That was the first land-based American plane to fly over Tokyo since the Doolittle Raid in 1942. Those photos provided the XXI Bomber Command locations of Japanese aircraft manufacturing plants, helping the mission planners to choose targets for the coming B-29 onslaught. Steakley’s F-13A became “Tokyo Rose” after that mission.
    Show more Show less
    Less than 1 minute
  • ISR Tour: OA-10 Catalina

    ISR Tour: OA-10 Catalina
    Jul 30 2015
    The Catalina performed some of the most critical surveillance missions of World War II. An RAF Catalina located the German battleship Bismarck, enabling the Royal Navy to destroy it in May 1941. A Canadian Catalina warned the Royal Navy’s Indian Ocean fleet of the approach of a Japanese carrier group in April 1942 before being shot down by a Zero. A Catalina also spotted the Japanese carrier force as it approached Midway Island in June 1942 and provided one of the most important radio messages of the war. This aircraft is a Consolidated OA-10 Catalina.
    Show more Show less
    Less than 1 minute
Political Science
Show more Show less

What listeners say about ISR Audio Tour Part 1

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.com reviews

Amazon reviews
No Reviews are Available