Introduction On April 8th, 1950, in the midst of the Cold War, the skies over international waters bore witness to a clandestine aerial confrontation. Soviet Pilot Anatolij Gerasimov, at the helm of his Lavochkin 11 fighter plane, took aim at the imposing silhouette of the US Navy PB 4Y2 Privateer. In a deafening burst of […]
- Tags air, air battles, Anatolij Gerasimov's secret mission, bbc documentary, Channel 4 documentary, Clandestine aerial confrontations, cold, cold war, Cold War aerial encounters, cold war documentary, cold war history, cold war russian propaganda, Covert espionage operations, Deception in Cold War history, documentaries, Documentary, documentary history, Documentary movies - topic, Espionage and intrigue in the 20th century, full documentary, Full length Documentaries, Global geopolitics during the Cold War, Hidden conflicts of the Cold War, history, history documentary, Legacy of Cold War secrecy, planes shot down cold war, secret, secret air crash, shot down over the soviet union, Skirmishes, Soviet, Soviet history, Soviet Union, The Secret Air Skirmishes Of The Cold War, timeline, TV Shows - Topic, union, US Navy PB 4Y2 Privateer incident, War, zdf