U-2 Incident
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...U-2 INCIDENT in U.S. and Soviet history, the events following the Soviet downing of an American U-2 high altitude reconnaissance aircraft over Soviet territory on May 1, 1960. The incident...conference between the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France in...flights was difficult to maintain when the Soviets produced the pilot, Francis Gary Powers...