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The riveting story of one of World War II's most intense and desperate missions. Mission Aphrodite was a real-life, aerial Guns of Navarone scheme that called for volunteers to guide B-17 drone planes packed with explosives into Nazi V-2 rocket bases. The secret mission was carried out with reckless courage that ultimately cost many brave men's lives including President John F. Kennedy's elder brother Joseph Kennedy, Jr. This is the story of the most incredible mission of World War II, born in desperation and carried out with foolhardy courage and at the cost of brave men's lives: Mission Aphrodite! A real-life, aerial Guns of Navarone scheme that called for volunteers to guide B-17 drone planes packed with explosives into the Nazi V-2 rocket bases. The mission that cost Joe Kennedy, Jr., his life.

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