{"product_id":"project-zebra-roosevelt-and-stalins-top-secret-mission-to-train-300-soviet-airmen-in-america-9781456628635","title":"Project Zebra: Roosevelt and Stalin's Top-Secret Mission to Train 300 Soviet Airmen in America","description":"\u003cp\u003eTop-Secret Project Zebra was\/is the only time in history that Soviet airmen were trained in America by Americans. Their mission: to fly a state-of-the-art amphibious warplane produced in Philadelphia. Incredibly, 185 of these huge, heavily-armed PBN-Nomad, painted with bright Red Army stars, were then ferried to the sleepy, patriotic town of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, without a single media leak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere, 11 hand-picked Naval officers befriended and trained 300+ Soviet airmen over a period of 18 months before the planes were dispatched to the Atlantic and Pacific theaters where they destroyed numerous Nazi U-Boats and Japanese submarines without losing a single plane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProject Zebra was more than a military mission. It became a historic human event. The Soviet and American teams shared experiences that created bonds of trust and mutual respect, despite their language barriers and cultural differences -- something that might serve us well to model during these uncertain Russian-American moments. Project Zebra was declassified on December 31, 2012, and remains one of WWII's last never-been-told stories. Until now \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ebookit.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781456628635\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d","brand":"M. G. Crisci","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38022770458805,"sku":"9781456628635","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f4fa67a7-d786-47b2-9a22-33691da767b1.jpg?v=1609182605","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/project-zebra-roosevelt-and-stalins-top-secret-mission-to-train-300-soviet-airmen-in-america-9781456628635","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}