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	Gary Powers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Powers' U-2, which was stationed at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile on 1 May 1960 over Sverdlovsk; he was convicted of espionage against the Soviet Union and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment and 7 years of hard labor.
		On his return to the U.S., Powers was criticized for having failed to activate his aircraft's self-destruct charge to destroy the camera, photographic film, and related classified parts of his aircraft before capture.
		Francis Gary Powers was portrayed by Lee Majors in a 1976 movie, Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident that dramatized the incident of 1960.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gary_Powers (680 words)

	Learn more about Gary Powers in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 - August 1, 1977) was an American military pilot.
		On May 1, 1960 Powers left Peshawar, Pakistan in a U-2 spyplane, on a mission to photograph ICBM development sites in and around Sverdlovsk and Plesetsk in the Soviet Union.
		Powers was convicted of espionage on August 19 and sentenced to 3 years' imprisonment and 7 years of hard labor.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /g/ga/gary_powers.html (357 words)

	Coalfield.com
		Powers, who grew up in the Pound area, became known throughout the world on May 1, 1960, when his U-2 plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile during a high-altitude photo reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union.
		Powers Jr., who lives in Midlothian, said Wednesday that he and his sister, who lives in Minnesota, paid for the marker not only to honor their father, but also to honor their mother, Claudia "Sue" Powers, who died in 2004.
		Powers previously had unsuccessfully tried to get a postage stamp issued in his father's honor, and he was pleased with the marker.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=15057921&BRD=1283&PAG=461&dept_id=158544&rfi=6 (893 words)

	Francis Gary Powers --the spy who fell from the skies, Indian Airforce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pilot Gary Powers was shot down as he flew the sinister U2, designed for covert surveillance, over Soviet territory, sparking one of the biggest international crises of the Cold War.
		Criticized when he returned to the United States for not ensuring the revolutionary plane was destroyed or killing himself with poison, Powers was cold-shouldered by his former employers at the Central Intelligence Agency and eventually died in 1977 at the age of 47 when a television news helicopter he was piloting crashed in Los Angeles.
		Powers, Jr., 34, has devoted much of his time to seeing his father's memory honored, and is working to establish a permanent Cold War Museum in Washington, D.C. to educate the public about the period of US-Soviet rivalry.
	www.geocities.com /siafdu/powers.html (565 words)

	Pound Gary Powers
		Francis Gary Powers Jr., his wife, Jennifer, and their son Francis Gary Powers III, called 'Trey,' were part of a family reunion of the deceased U2 pilot who was shot down over the former Soviet Union.
		Powers was killed in a helicopter crash in Los Angeles in 1977.
		Gloria Thacker, who Powers' son credits with getting the ball rolling on the historical marker, said the new highway sign was "long overdue." She was a playmate of one of Powers' sisters, Joyce Stallard.
	www.wise.k12.va.us /phs/POUND_GARY_POWERS.htm (894 words)

	Francis Gary Powers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On May 1st, 1960, CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers flew an espionage mission over the USSR that ended in his becoming a pawn in the Cold War.
		Thirty-one year old Francis Gary Powers was sentenced to three years in Vladimir Prison plus an additional seven years in a corrective labor colony, but was exchanged for Soviet master spy Colonel Rudolph Abel after serving one year, nine months, and ten days.
		Although he didn't read, write or speak Russian, Laika was easy for Powers to identify because the paper package used a picture of the famous dog for a logo.
	www.wclynx.com /burntofferings/packspowers.html (340 words)

	ON THIS DAY \| 19 \| 1960: Moscow jails American U-2 spy pilot
		Powers had pleaded guilty to spying for the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after his plane was shot down on 1 May at an altitude of about 68,000 ft (20,760 m), south of Sverdlovsk, 850 miles (1,368 km) east of Moscow.
		Powers told the court he was offered a well-paid job with the CIA after leaving the US Air Force.
		Gary Powers: "I realise I have committed a grave crime and must be punished"
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/19/newsid_2962000/2962600.stm (588 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 10 \| 1962: Russia frees US spy plane pilot
		Gary Powers was sentenced to 10 years in a Soviet prison after his U-2 plane was shot down over Russia in May 1960.
		Gary Powers was not universally recognised as a hero in the US - some people felt he should not have allowed himself to be captured alive.
		In 2000 after a campaign by his family Gary Powers was posthumously honoured by the US Air Force on the 40th anniversary of his plane being shot down.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/10/newsid_2731000/2731827.stm (602 words)

	The Cold War Museum - Contributions
		Sue Powers was a founding member of the Cold War Museum, and a driving force in the support of all cold war warriors across the globe.
		Sue Powers will be buried July 13 in the plot with her husband at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
		Gary and I both realize that we were not easy children to raise, but several of her lessons we learned well.
	www.coldwar.org /museum/sue_powers.html (1069 words)

	Mayday 1960 - Gary Powers U-2 Flight
		Powers' wife, Barbara, much to the annoyance of his superiors, had already followed him to Athens, where he had told her he was stationed.
		Powers had originally been slated to fly the unit's best aircraft, but after the constant shuttling back and forth to Peshawar during the previous days' delays it had accumulated excessive flight hours and had been grounded for routine maintenance.
		When Powers returned to the United States, he faced accusations that he was a defector or perhaps even a double agent, but he was cleared by the CIA and a congressional panel.
	area51specialprojects.com /u2_mayday.html (8898 words)

	Gary Powers Info.
		Francis Gary Powers was born August 17, 1929.
		Because of a news helicopter accident, in Encino, California, Gary Powers died August 1, 1977.
		Gary Powers is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA.
	www.wise.k12.va.us /phs/POUND_GARY_POWERS_INFO.htm (144 words)

	AII POW-MIA - U2 Incident - Cold War
		Pilot F. Gary Powers survived his crash to be tried in the Soviet Union as a spy, and convicted to imprisonment.
		Powers case is unique, in that it was made so public, and he came home.
		Pilot Powers, about whose fate the Embassy of the United States of America inquired in its note of May 6, is alive and, as indicated in the aforementioned speech of Chairman of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers N. Khrushchev, will be brought to account under the laws of the Soviet state.
	www.aiipowmia.com /koreacw/powers.html (3387 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Ask Us - Gary Powers and the U-2
		Powers had been chosen for this mission because he was considered the most experienced U-2 pilot with 27 flights over Soviet territory.
		Powers has stated that when the U-2 fell into its terminal spiral, the centrifugal force was so great that it broke the canopy and pushed him out of the aircraft.
		Powers was sentenced to ten years in prison following an infamous show-trial, but was released in 1962 in exchange for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
	www.aerospaceweb.org /question/history/q0013.shtml (1060 words)

	Military.com Content
		Powers was one of the men charged with the mission of flying on atmosphere's edge, at altitudes that designers and military experts thought made these planes invulnerable to Soviet air defenses.
		Powers made it out of the plane safely, but unable to detonate the self-destruct charge on the plane, he landed amidst the top-secret wreckage of the U-2 and found himself in the care of the KGB.
		While in 1998 declassified Cold War documents revealed that Powers' mission was a joint operation by the CIA and the Air Force, it was not until May 1, 2000, the fortieth anniversary of the U-2 incident that the U.S. government posthumously awarded his family the medals denied to Powers while he was alive.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent1?file=cw_fgpowers (1034 words)

	Roadrunners Internationale Web Page - CIA U-2 Pilot Gary Francis Powers
		Powers was one of the men charged with the mission of flying on atmosphere's edge, at altitudes that designers and military experts thought
		The Soviet Union staged a widely publicized public trial for Francis Gary Powers that was designed to embarrass the United States, and Powers was sentenced to 10 years in a Soviet prison.
		Powers died in 1977, at the age of 47, in the crash of a helicopter that he flew for K-NBC News in Los Angeles,
	www.roadrunnersinternationale.com /powers_gary.html (1441 words)

	Powers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Powers, a comic book series by Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Avon Oeming
		John A. "Shorty" Powers, USAF Lt. Col.; was the "Voice of Mission Control" at NASA during Project Mercury.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Powers (112 words)

	ARTICLE: Francis Gary Powers' son creates Cold War Museum (The Virginian-Pilot - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Powers eventually left government work, married a former CIA employee, and they had a son, plus her daughter from a previous marriage.
		Gary pulled from the bookshelf a brass-colored model of a missile, with a little plaque that says it was awarded to the pilot who shot down America’s spy plane in 1960.
		Gary had a CIA job application when he was 18 or 19 but didn’t fill it out.
	home.hamptonroads.com /stories/story.cfm?story=99604&ran=3336 (1919 words)

	Powers, Francis Gary on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Archive Photos 01-01-1962 Francis Gary PowersCold-War spy pilot Francis Gary Powers became well-known when his U-2 plane was shot down by a Soviet long-range missile while he was flying over the U.S.S.R. in 1960.
		Son of U-2 Pilot to Bring Cold War Museum Artifacts to Tri-C's Western Campus; Gary Powers to Speak on Tuesday, October 1, at 10 a.m.; Workshop for Area High School Teachers on the Cold War to be Held in the Afternoon.
		A new look at the U-2 case: never before interviewed, those who met Gary Powers when he fell from the sky tell their story.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/x/x-p1owersf1g1.asp (379 words)

	TimesDispatch.com \| Highway marker honors U-2 spy pilot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		POUND -- Francis Gary Powers, who became a Cold War icon when his U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, was honored yesterday when the state unveiled a highway marker outside his hometown.
		Powers, born just over the state line in Kentucky but raised in Pound, died in a helicopter crash in Los Angeles in 1977 while working as a ra- dio traffic reporter for KNBC.
		Powers grew up on a farm in Pound, but his family lived in different places in Southwest Virginia, and he eventually graduated from Grundy High School in Buchanan County.
	www.timesdispatch.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784504503 (713 words)

	Francis Gary Powers, Captain, United States Air Force
		Sue Powers, who moved to Las Vegas permanently in 1994 after the Northridge earthquake destroyed her home and was a part-time local resident for 10 years before that, died in Las Vegas on June 17, 2004, of pulmonary problems.
		Powers will be buried with her husband in Arlington National Cemetery July 13, 2004.
		Sue Powers was born July 23, 1935, in Leesburg, Va.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /francisg.htm (486 words)

	MAY DAY FOR THE U-2
		Powers’ wife Barbara, much to the annoyance of his superiors, had already followed him to Athens, where he’d told her he was stationed.
		Powers had originally been slated to fly the unit’s best aircraft, but in the constant shuttling back and forth to Peshawar during the previous days’ delays it had accumulated excessive flight hours and been grounded for routine maintenance.
		Powers was an hour and a half into the flight when he saw the first sign he’d been spotted: a white streak of contrail below, stretching out behind an invisibly small, supersonically fast jet fighter, coming toward him.
	www.donhollway.com /articles/u2/u2/u2.html (4065 words)

	Pack’s Powers penalized (printable version)
		Powers has been suspended by the NCAA and the Nevada athletic department has been fined $2,500 for a self-reported secondary violation by the baseball program.
		Powers said two other players no longer with the program, Anthony Slagle and Zach Kosturos, were also academically ineligible at the time.
		Powers said he never thought the scrimmage was an eligibility issue because Laidlaw, Markel and Gillies were eligible to practice with the Wolf Pack during the fall.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=10080 (906 words)

	Francis Gary Powers -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Powers was tried and convicted of espionage and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
		He was exchanged in 1962 for the American aviator Francis Gary Powers, who had been imprisoned as a spy in the Soviet Union since 1960.
		During the period between 1946 and 1962, the nature of this new conflict emerged as the United States and its Western allies became embroiled in a battle against the Soviet Union and the specter of...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9061135?tocId=9061135&ref=news0904 (845 words)

	U-2 incident on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		President Eisenhower's initial claim that he had no knowledge of such flights was difficult to maintain when the Soviets produced the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, who had survived the crash.
		Powers was sentenced to ten years in prison, but was released in 1962 in exchange for convicted Soviet spy Rudolph Abel.
		Powers became well-known when his U-2 plane was shot down by a Soviet long-range missile while he was flying over the U.S.S.R. in 1960.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/U/U2incide.asp (369 words)

	AII POW-MIA InterNetwork
		In May 2000 at Beale Air Force Base California, Gary (as he prefers to be called) stood with his mother, Sue, and sister, Dee, as his father was posthumously honored with the Distinguished Flying Cross, the POW Medal and the Central Intelligence Agency Director's Award.
		Gary, who often went up with his father in the news helicopter, was not aboard that day.
		Powers eventually was convicted of spying in a show trial and sentenced to 10 years' confinement.
	www.aiipowmia.com /inter21/in081301fgp.html (1205 words)

	U-2 EXHIBIT OPENING FEATURING FRANCIS GARY POWERS JR. PRESENTATION APRIL 14
		Powers was shot down on May 1, 1960 as he flew the U-2, designed for covert surveillance, over Soviet territory, sparking a major international incident which, among other things, exposed the existence of the CIA for the first time and set in motion a pattern of U.S.-U.S.S.R. mistrust that culminated in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
		Powers was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, of which he served 21 months until Feb. 10, 1962, when he was exchanged for Soviet Col. Rudolf Abel in a dramatic East-West spy swap.
		Powers died in 1977 at the age of 47.
	www.eaa.org /communications/eaanews/020403_u2exhibit.html (651 words)

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