Francis Gary Powers

✶August 17, 1929

†August 1, 1977

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Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers is best known for his involvement in the 1960 U-2 incident, when he was shot down while flying a secret CIA spying mission over the Soviet Union. Powers survived, but was captured and sentenced to 10 years in a Soviet prison for espionage. He served 21 months of his sentence before being released in a prisoner swap in 1962.

American pilot (1929–1977)

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Biography from the article Francis Gary Powers on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.