Early August, 1943 - The War Department, Washington, DC: "Mother of God " I don't believe what I just saw." General "Hap" Arnold, USAAC exclaims. He had just watched captured German film of a test flight of the most lethal weapon of World War II, the first combat jet fighter plane in aviation history, the Messerschmitt 262 "My God With the Me 262s, Hitler can put an aerial umbrella over Europe that could win the war for them...No, not could, but would win How do we stop them ?" Operation Hermes is the story of how a small group of Allied Intelligence agents developed and executed a plan to...