Aphrodite: Desperate Mission: The true story of the top-secret mission to save London from the Nazis that cost Joe Kennedy, Jr. , his life

In the summer of 1944, with Nazi V-weapon sites threatening to devastate London, American military planners conceived one of the most audacious and desperate schemes of the entire war. They would pack war-weary B-17 bombers with twelve tons of high explosives, get them airborne with skeleton crews, arm the payload, and then bail out over friendly territory, leaving the planes to be guided by radio control from accompanying mother ships directly into their targets.

The technology was so primi...