Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident

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Copyright © 2004 by Claudia E. Powers and Curt Genry

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Powers, Francis Gary, 1929–

Operation Overflight: a memoir of the U-2 Incident / Francis Gary Powers with Curt Gentry.

p.cm.

ISBN 978-1-57488-422-7 (alk. paper)

1. Powers, Francis Gary, 1929– 2. U-2 Incident, 1960. 3. Cold War. I. Gentry, Curt, 1931– II. Title.

DK266.3 .P64 2002

973.921’092—dc21

2002071149

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper that meets the American National Standards Institute Z39-48 Standard.

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