Nightstalkers by Richard Phillip Lawless - 9781636242057

Casemate Publishers

NightstalkersThe Wright Project and the 868th Bomb Squadron in World War II\nAuthor(s): Richard Phillip Lawless\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Casemate Publishers, United States\nImprint: Casemate Publishers\nISBN-13: 9781636242057, 978-1636242057\nSynopsis\nIn August 1943, a highly classified US Army Air Force unit, code-named the 'Wright Project', departed Langley Field for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific to join the fight against the Empire of Japan. Operating independently, under sealed orders drafted at the highest levels of Army Air Force, the Wright Project was unique, both in terms of the war-fighting capabilities provided by classified systems the ten B-24 Liberators of this small group of airmen brought to the war, and in the success these 'crash-built' technologies allowed. The Wright airmen would fly only at night, usually as lone hunters of enemy ships. In so doing they would pave the way for the United States to enter and dominate a new dimension of war in the air for g.