Francis Gary Powers
Military Person
1929 – 1977
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Who was Francis Gary Powers?
Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
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