Francis Gary Powers

The Day the Sky Fell: Francis Gary Powers and the U-2 Incident

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The Day the Sky Fell: Francis Gary Powers and the U-2 Incident

The year is 1960. The Cold War is a chilling reality, a geopolitical chess game played with nuclear arsenals and ideological fervor. Espionage is its silent, deadly currency. On a crisp May morning, a sleek, silver U-2 spy plane, a marvel of American engineering designed to fly higher than any Soviet missile could reach, soared … Read more

The Day the Sky Fell: Francis Gary Powers and the U-2 Incident

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The U-2 Incident: Francis Gary Powers and the Day the Sky Fell

The crisp May morning of May 1, 1960, dawned like any other for Francis Gary Powers, a skilled aviator in the employ of the Central Intelligence Agency. Piloting the Lockheed U-2, a reconnaissance aircraft designed to fly at altitudes previously thought unreachable, Powers was on a mission that epitomized the clandestine nature of the Cold … Read more