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On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory.
1 maj 2015 · In 1960, one of the most notorious chapters in the Cold War began after American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down and captured during a spying mission over the Soviet Union.
7 lis 2024 · On May 5, 1960, the Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev told the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. that an American spy plane had been shot down on May 1 over Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), referring to the flight as an “aggressive act” by the United States.
9 lis 2009 · The U‑2 Spy Incident was an international diplomatic crisis that erupted in May 1960 when the USSR shot down an American U‑2 spy plane and imprisoned its pilot.
13 lis 2009 · Traveling at altitudes of up to 70,000 feet, the aircraft was equipped with state-of-the-art photography equipment that could, the CIA boasted, take high-resolution pictures of headlines in...
30 kwi 2010 · It has been five decades since American pilot Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down during a reconnaissance mission over Soviet airspace on May 1, 1960.
1 maj 2020 · Sixty years ago, Soviet Air Defense Forces shot down a U.S. spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers as he was on a photographic-reconnaissance mission deep inside the U.S.S.R.
