Francis Gary Powers Books

Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident - Paperback

Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident - Paperback

Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident - Paperback

By Francis Gary Powers and Curt Gentry
Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy - Hardcover

Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy - Hardcover

Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy - Hardcover

By Francis Gary Powers and Keith Dunnavant

About Francis Gary Powers Books

Francis Gary Powers served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force and completed twenty-seven U-2 photographic reconnaissance missions for the CIA, including several overflights of the Soviet Union, until shot down by a Soviet surface-to-air missile on May 1, 1960. Upon his return to the United States in 1962, he flew the U-2 as an engineering test pilot for Lockheed Aircraft. Powers died in a helicopter crash in 1977.