U2 Spy Plane Incident

In May 1960 a Soviet missile shot down an American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory near Sverdlovsk.

In February 1962, Powers was exchanged, along with a U.S. student for Soviet KGB Colonel William Fisher.

Sverdlosk

Source: Wikipedia

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