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1st May 1960 (50 years ago today): U2 Spy Plane Incident

Posted by Russel Tarr on May 1, 2010April 25, 2010

A Soviet missile shoots down an American Lockheed U2 spy plane; the pilot Francis Gary Powers is captured.

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