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Francis Powers

Other Service · US Air Force · Captain

Rank: Captain
United States of America

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Francis Powers (1929)Francis Powers (1929)
US, Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
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Francis Powers (1929)Francis Powers (1929)
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Source URLs

URL
Events
Description
Air Force
interrogation
Mr. Powers was described as “commonplace”
pilot
Central Intelligence Agency
[1]
U-2 spy plane
reconnaissance
airspace
1960 U-2 incident
Jenkins, Kentucky
Pound, Virginia
Milligan College
Tennessee
United States Air Force
468th Strategic Fighter Squadron
Turner Air Force Base
Georgia
F-84 Thunderjet
Korean War
CIA
jet aircraft
[2]
captain
U-2
espionage
Soviet Union
KGB
Peshawar
Pakistan
Peshawar Air Station
S-75 Dvina
[3]
Sverdlovsk
[4]
MiG-19
Degtyarsk
Su-9
[5]
hard labor
Vladimir Central Prison
Frederic Pryor
Glienicke Bridge
Colonel
Vilyam Fisher
[6]
self-destruct
camera
photographic film
classified
suicide pill
[7]
Richard Russell
Prescott Bush
Barry Goldwater
Lockheed
KGIL
KNBC
telecopter
Curt Gentry
Lee Majors
Santa Barbara County
Bell 206 Jet Ranger
Sepulveda Dam
Burbank Airport
[8]
National Transportation Safety Board
[9]
[10]
autorotative
Arlington National Cemetery
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Intelligence Star
Prisoner of War Medal
Distinguished Flying Cross
National Defense Service Medal
George Tenet
Director's Medal
[12]
Silver Star
Lubyanka Prison
[13]
Norton Schwartz