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Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Lockheed U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. He later worked as a helicopter pilot for KNBC in Los Angeles and died in a 1977 helicopter crash.
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Universal Newsreel about the 1960 U-2 incident Francis Gary Powers, pilot of the plane. 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.
Feb 7, 2017 · American Military History. The Story of How the Soviets Shot Down US Pilot Francis Gary Powers. The CIA painted fictitious markings on this U-2 and paraded it in front of the press to support...
Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, The U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy. Francis Gary Powers, Jr. and Keith Dunavant (Prometheus Books, 2019), 296 pages, au-thor’s note, foreword, introduction, acknowledgements, list of interviews, notes, index. Reviewed by David A. Foy.
On August 1, 1977, a Bell 206 news helicopter piloted by American pilot Francis Gary Powers ran out of fuel and crashed into a field near Encino, Los Angeles, California, killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.
Francis Gary Powers was born to Oliver and Ida Powers on August 17, 1929 in Burdine, Kentucky and raised in Pound, Virginia during the Great Depression. He graduated from Grundy High School, Virginia in 1946 and four years later graduated from Milligan College, Tennessee; he then enlisted as an Aviation Cadet, USAF.
CIA civilian pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the USSR while photographing missile sites at Sverdlovsk and Plesetsk. The Soviets reportedly fired fourteen newly developed SA-2 surface-to-air missiles at his U-2.
