Wings of the morning : the flights of Orestes Lorenzo /
Lorenzo, Orestes
Wings of the morning : the flights of Orestes Lorenzo / Orestes Lorenzo ; translated by E. K. Max. - New York : St. Martin's Press, c1994. - 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations : 24 cm.
In December 1992 Orestes Lorenzo undertook the most daring journey of his life. More than a year earlier, while a major in the Cuban Air Force, he had escaped from Cuba by flying a MiG to the United States, and for twenty-one frantic months had been trying to get permission for his wife, Vicky, and their two sons to join him. When all his attempts to gain their freedom failed, Orestes decided to go back and rescue his family himself. Meanwhile, Vicky had been undergoing a terrifying ordeal back in Cuba, where the authorities were pressuring her to denounce her husband as a traitor. They informed her that she would never be allowed to leave, and that Raul Castro himself had declared: "If Lorenzo had the guts to leave with one if my MiGs, maybe he has the guts to come back and get his family." Desperate, Orestes Lorenzo did just that, flying an old twin-engine Cessna across the straits of Florida, avoiding Cuban radar, and landing on a busy highway in a breathtaking rescue
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Lorenzo, Orestes
Fuerza Aérea Rebelde (Cuba)--Biography.
Fuerza Aérea Rebelde (Cuba) --Biografía
Political refugees--Biography.--Cuba
Refugiados políticos --Cuba
Political refugees--Biography.--United States
Fighter pilots--Biography.--Cuba
Aviadores militares --Cuba
Cuba--History--1959-1990.
Cuba--Historia--1959-
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Wings of the morning : the flights of Orestes Lorenzo / Orestes Lorenzo ; translated by E. K. Max. - New York : St. Martin's Press, c1994. - 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations : 24 cm.
In December 1992 Orestes Lorenzo undertook the most daring journey of his life. More than a year earlier, while a major in the Cuban Air Force, he had escaped from Cuba by flying a MiG to the United States, and for twenty-one frantic months had been trying to get permission for his wife, Vicky, and their two sons to join him. When all his attempts to gain their freedom failed, Orestes decided to go back and rescue his family himself. Meanwhile, Vicky had been undergoing a terrifying ordeal back in Cuba, where the authorities were pressuring her to denounce her husband as a traitor. They informed her that she would never be allowed to leave, and that Raul Castro himself had declared: "If Lorenzo had the guts to leave with one if my MiGs, maybe he has the guts to come back and get his family." Desperate, Orestes Lorenzo did just that, flying an old twin-engine Cessna across the straits of Florida, avoiding Cuban radar, and landing on a busy highway in a breathtaking rescue
0312100086 9780312100087
93021523
Lorenzo, Orestes
Fuerza Aérea Rebelde (Cuba)--Biography.
Fuerza Aérea Rebelde (Cuba) --Biografía
Political refugees--Biography.--Cuba
Refugiados políticos --Cuba
Political refugees--Biography.--United States
Fighter pilots--Biography.--Cuba
Aviadores militares --Cuba
Cuba--History--1959-1990.
Cuba--Historia--1959-
107 F 1788.22 / L869w 1994
972.9106/4