Heid the Ba' wrote:Foxtrot Alpha had a good article on the U@ about a month ago. How odd, I thought I remembered Powers being shot down, but apparently I hadn't been born.
Perhaps you remember his helicopter crash of August 1, 1977?
Supposedly his was already planned to be the last U-2 flight over the Soviet Union, as Eisenhower thought they were becoming too dangerous. The outcome generally confirms Eisenhower's fear.