Francis Gary Powers
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| Gender | Male |
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| Born | Jenkins |
| Kentucky | |
| United States | |
| Died | Encino |
| Los Angeles | |
| California | |
| United States | |
| Spouse | Barbara Gay Moore; (m. 1956; div. 1963); Claudia Edwards Downey (m. 1963) |
| Children | Francis Gary Powers Jr. |
| Dee Rogers | |
| Parents | Oliver Winfield Powers |
| Ida Melinda Ford | |
| Job | Aviator |
| Books | Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident |
| Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time | |
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| ID | 516254 |
Francis Gary Powers Life story
Francis Gary Powers —often referred to as simply Gary Powers—was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
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