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Abstract
"William Gregory, "Greg" to all, was born into a sharecropper's life in the hills of north central Tennessee. From the back of a mule-drawn plow, Greg learned the value of resilience and the importance of living a determined life. Refusing to accept a life of continued poverty, Greg sought and found a way out--a work-study college program that made it possible to leave farming behind him forever.While at college, Greg completed the Civilian Pilot Training Program and was subsequently accepted into the Army's pilot training program. Earning his wings in 1942, Greg became a P-38 combat pilot and served in North Africa during the summer of 1943--a critical time when the Luftwaffe was still a potent threat, and America had begun the march northward from the Mediterranean into Europe proper.Following the war, Greg served with a B-29 unit, then transitioned to the new, red-hot B-47 strategic bomber. In his frequent deployments, he was always assigned the same target in the Soviet Union--Tblisi, Stalin's home town. While a B-47 pilot, Greg was selected to join America's first high-altitude program--the Black Knights. Flying RB-57D aircraft, Greg and his team flew peripheral "ferret" missions around the Soviet Union and its satellites, collecting critical order-of-battle data so desperately needed by the Air Force at that time. When that program neared its design end, and following the Gary Powers shoot-down over the Soviet Union, Greg was assigned to command of the CIA's U-2 unit at Edwards AFB. It was during that five-year command that Greg and his team provided critical overflight intelligence, including during the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam build-up. He found time to also become one of the first to fly U-2s off aircraft carriers in a demonstration project.Following his U-2 command, Greg attended the National War College, was assigned to the reconnaissance office at the Pentagon, and then was named Vice-Commandant of the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). Greg retired from the Air Force in 1972."
Intro -- Title -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Early Years -- Chapter 2 The Origins of an Aviator -- Chapter 3 Army Air Force Flight Training and Combat -- Chapter 4 Combat Tour -- Chapter 5 Coming Home-Endings and Beginnings -- Chapter 6 SAC Command Pilot -- Chapter 7 Project Black Knight and the Origins of America's High-Altitude Program -- Chapter 8 Operation Border Town-Anatomy of a Deployment -- Chapter 9 The CIA and Early U-2 Operations -- Chapter 10 U-2 Shootdown -- Chapter 11 Cuban Missile Crisis -- Chapter 12 Puerto Rico, Southeast Asia, and Whale Tale -- Chapter 13 The A-12 Archangel and a Turning Point -- Chapter 14 National War College, The Pentagon, and AFIT -- Chapter 15 The Colonel is a Civilian -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 Standardized Flight Formation -- Appendix 2 The Corona Satellite Reconnaissance Program -- Appendix 3 Colonel Gregory's Mission Checklist -- Appendix 4 Detachment G's U-2 Missions -- Appendix 5 Personal Letter from President John F. Kennedy to Lt. Col. William Gregory, January 5, 1963 -- Appendix 6 Awards and Citations -- Appendix 7 Aircraft Flown by Colonel Gregory -- Endnotes -- Copyright.
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