Francis Gary Powers (1960-1961)

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Chronicle of the Vietnam War: photographs of soldiers, missile launches, air battles.

Drawings of the American Lockheed U-2 aircraft.

Prison photograph of pilot Francis Powers, shot down over Sverdlovsk on May 1, 1960. Soviet air defense soldiers.

Photographs of military installations taken with Powers' camera.

Sverdlovsk, an exhibition in the District Officers' Club: aircraft wreckage, photographs, remains of equipment, crowds of visitors. F.G. Powers at the trial.

Persons:

Powers F.G. -- American pilot

CIA spy

retired US Air Force captain

test pilot for Lockheed (1963-1970).

Calendar:

1960-1961

Shooting locations:

Vietnam Sverdlovsk

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