Copyright © 2004 by Claudia E. Powers and Curt Genry
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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
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