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Francis Gary Powers, with a U-2, was captured in 1960 after his plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. His son, Francis Gary Powers, Jr., will talk about the incidence, along with a book he wrote ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. WASHINGTON • Fifty-two years after his U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, famed Cold War pilot Francis Gary ...

Francis Gary Powers Jr., the son of the U-2 spy plane pilot who was shot down and imprisoned in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, gave about 230 Chesterfield County middle school ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Air Force will award a Silver Star posthumously to Francis Gary Powers, the pilot whose spy plane was shot down in 1960 over the Soviet Union in a defining moment of the Cold War ...

The memories from Pound, Va., go on and on about man whose plane was shot down during the Cold War in Russia. That pilot’s name: Francis Gary Powers. Born in 1929, Powers grew up in Pound and ...

ABINGDON, Va. — Francis Gary Powers, Jr. will be the featured speaker at the May 18 Sunday with Friends event at the Washington County Public Library in Abingdon.

Francis Gary Powers was in a Lockheed U2 spy plane flying over the Soviet Union. These spy planes had been flying untouched by the USSR given their high altitude and speed. Even though missile systems ...