Consider reading Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen. Its a fascinating read.
I want to quote a few lines from the book.
First the background. After WWII, many of Hitler's crack scientists landed in the USA and The Soviet Union. In the USA these scientists continued work on jet and rocket design as did their Russian counterparts.
Now the quote -
"The Korean War has often been called the forgotten war. In its simplest terms, it was a war between North Korea and South Korea, but it was also the first trial of technical strength and scientific prowess between two opposing teams of German-born scientists specializing in aviation. One group of Germans worked for America now, as Paperclip scientists, and the other group worked for the Soviet Union, and the jet-versus-jet dogfights in the skies above Korea were fights between American-made F-86 Sabres and Soviet-made MiG-15s, both of which had been designed by Germans who once worked for Adolf Hitler."
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Annie Jacobsen is the woman who made a fuss on a commercial flight because she didn't like the looks of some middle eastern men. Turns out they were musicians on their way to a gig.
Oh well! Better safe than sorry!
This is one good book. She lays down a lot of very good historic American information. It s a hard book to put down.
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