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Francis Gary Powers

Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a ...

1960 U2 incident

A US Air Force C-130 followed, carrying the ground crew, mission pilot Francis Gary Powers and the back up pilot, Bob Ericson. On the morning of April 29, the ...

Francis Gary Powers and the 1960 U-2 Incident: The History and Legacy of the Fateful Spy Plane Mission that Changed the Cold War

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the mission and the trial written by Powers and others *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “I must tell you a secret. When I made my first report I deliberately did not say that the pilot was alive ...

Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers

Originally published in 1964, this is the “enthralling…truly remarkable” (The New York Times Book Review) insider account of the Cold War spy exchange that is now the subject of the major motion picture Bridge of Spies by Steven Spielberg starring Tom Hanks—with a new foreword by Jason Matthews, New...

Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident

In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what actually happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history. After surviving the shoot-down of his reconnaissance plane and his capture on May 1,...

Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for The First Time

For the first time since his release from a Russian prison in 1962, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history: the U-2 incident.

Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time