Description

In August 1943 a highly classified US Army Air Force unit codenamed 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 warfighting capabilities provided by classified systems the ten B24 Liberators of this small group of airmen brought to the war and in the success these crashbuilt technologies allowed The Wright airmen would fly only at night usually as lone hunters of enemy ships

This is their story from humble beginnings at MITs Radiation Lab and hunting Uboats off Americas eastern shore through to the campaigns of the war in the Pacific in their twoyear march toward Tokyo The Wright Project would prove itself to be a combat leader many times over and an outstanding technology innovator evolving to become the 868th Bomb Squadron

The listener will meet radar warfare pioneers and squadron leaders who were never satisfied that they had pushed the men the aircraft and the technologies to the full limit of their possibilities This story can now be revealed for the very first time based on official sources and interviews with the young men who flew into the night