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On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory.
Jun 5, 2024 · On May 5, 1960, the Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev told the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. that an American spy plane had been shot down on May 1 over Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg ), referring to the flight as an “aggressive act” by the United States.
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- United States aircraft U-2 was shot down on May 1, 1960, over Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), U.S.S.R.
- The U-2 incident was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance...
- U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers was captured while on a reconnaissance flight. On May 7, 1960, Nikita S. Khrushchev revealed that Powers had parachu...
- Francis Gary Powers was tried (August 17–19, 1960) and sentenced to 10 years’ confinement by the Soviets, but he was exchanged for the Soviet spy R...
Nov 9, 2009 · An international diplomatic crisis erupted in May 1960 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot,...
May 29, 2024 · The U-2 Incident was a confrontation in 1960 between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union and caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris. The pilot was sentenced to 10 years’ confinement, but he was exchanged for a Soviet spy in 1962.
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- The U-2 aircraft was designed by aeronautical engineer Kelly Johnson, head of the Lockheed Corporation's famous, semisecret "Skunk Works." It was b...
- A prototype of the U-2 aircraft first flew in 1955.
- The U-2 aircraft, built of aluminum and limited to subsonic flight, can cruise for many hours above 70,000 feet (21,000 meters) with a payload weig...
- The last aircraft in the U-2 series was built in 1989.
U-2 Overflights and the Capture of Francis Gary Powers, 1960. On May 1, 1960, the pilot of an American U-2 spyplane was shot down while flying though Soviet airspace.
May 1, 2015 · In 1960, one of the most notorious chapters in the Cold War began after American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down and captured during a spying mission over the Soviet Union.
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Official documents record a dialogue between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. after an American spy plane goes down in Soviet territory.
