Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Lockheed U-2 spy plane was shot down... 40 KB (4,181 words) - 21:50, 30 April 2024 |
1977 Encino helicopter crash (redirect from 1977 Gary Powers helicopter crash) by American pilot Francis Gary Powers ran out of fuel and crashed into a field near Encino, Los Angeles, California, killing Powers and the aircraft's... 8 KB (864 words) - 17:30, 15 February 2024 |
1960 U-2 incident (redirect from Gary Powers incident) reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. Flown by American pilot Francis Gary Powers, the aircraft had taken off from Peshawar, Pakistan, and crashed... 57 KB (7,111 words) - 19:50, 29 April 2024 |
James B. Donovan (section Release of Gary Powers) negotiating the 1960–1962 exchange of captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and American student Frederic Pryor for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, and... 19 KB (1,813 words) - 10:38, 20 April 2024 |
Intelligence Star (section Francis Gary Powers) "CIA FOIA – Francis Gary Powers: U-2 Spy Pilot Shot Down by the Soviets". Archived from the original on August 31, 2012. Powers, Francis Gary; Curt Gentry... 47 KB (5,845 words) - 23:28, 12 March 2024 |
the 1970s. The television film Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976, as Francis Gary Powers), the Viking film The Norseman... 32 KB (2,491 words) - 09:39, 14 April 2024 |
James B. Donovan, who is entrusted with negotiating the release of Francis Gary Powers—a convicted Central Intelligence Agency pilot whose U-2 spy plane... 50 KB (4,897 words) - 06:14, 3 April 2024 |
Francis Powers may refer to: Francis Powers (actor) (1865–1940), American silent film actor, writer, and director Francis Gary Powers (1929–1977), American... 521 bytes (95 words) - 16:02, 12 December 2021 |
sequel Dolphin Tale 2, Love and Honor (2013), Whiplash (2014), and as Francis Gary Powers in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies (2015). Stowell was born as... 8 KB (381 words) - 18:32, 24 March 2024 |
Cold War "spy swap" that also involved downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. He spent the bulk of his career as a member of the Swarthmore College... 9 KB (897 words) - 13:50, 2 March 2024 |
War history. The museum was founded in 1996 by Francis Gary Powers Jr. (son of pilot Francis Gary Powers) and John C. Welch to preserve Cold War history... 10 KB (1,126 words) - 07:05, 14 February 2024 |
developed in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. On 1 May 1960, Francis Gary Powers flew a U-2 espionage mission from northern Pakistan over the Soviet... 6 KB (612 words) - 01:33, 22 October 2022 |
The CIA formally placed an order for 12 A-12 aircraft. 1 May 1960: Francis Gary Powers is shot down in a U-2 over the Soviet Union. He safely ejected and... 64 KB (7,708 words) - 01:26, 30 April 2024 |
Five-O. David appeared in TV movies such as Nikita Khrushchev in Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976) and The Amazing Howard... 11 KB (981 words) - 11:43, 9 March 2024 |
missiles shoot down an American Lockheed U-2 spy plane. Its pilot, Francis Gary Powers of the Central Intelligence Agency, is captured. In India, this day... 90 KB (9,343 words) - 12:49, 30 April 2024 |
In 1952 the Communist Chinese captured two CIA agents and in 1960 Francis Gary Powers, flying a U-2 reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union for the... 60 KB (7,339 words) - 13:19, 27 April 2024 |
It ended up not being made. Neither was a proposed movie about Francis Gary Powers made. Clavell did write, produce, and direct a Western at Paramount... 28 KB (3,056 words) - 23:07, 18 April 2024 |
sentence before he was exchanged for captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. Back in the Soviet Union, he lectured on his experiences. He died... 40 KB (4,868 words) - 17:54, 22 April 2024 |
overflight took place on July 4 1956. The U-2 ceased overflights when Francis Gary Powers was shot down during a mission on May 1, 1960, while over Russia... 24 KB (2,801 words) - 17:47, 30 April 2024 |
Milton C. Portmann Charles E. Potter Geronimo Pratt Tommy Prince Francis Gary Powers Ralph Puckett (two awards) Chesty Puller Lewis Burwell Puller Jr... 29 KB (2,716 words) - 16:59, 16 April 2024 |
soldiers to communicate securely with each other. The wreckage of Francis Gary Powers' U-2 plane. A 1922 Silver Dollar with Suicide Pin that was made by... 19 KB (1,762 words) - 00:34, 13 March 2024 |
exactly two months after the far better known U-2 shootdown involving Francis Gary Powers, and added to the tensions created by that incident. The plane was... 6 KB (481 words) - 15:01, 26 July 2023 |
also authorized U-2 reconnaissance flights, including the flight of Francis Gary Powers. Later in his career, he served as the Chief of the U.S. Liaison... 25 KB (2,617 words) - 19:39, 28 March 2024 |
American OSS, which was the predecessor organization of the CIA. Francis Gary Powers was issued a suppressed High Standard for the flight in which he... 40 KB (4,759 words) - 00:33, 21 April 2024 |