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^{Ida and Oliver Powers found themselves in the spotlight when their son’s plane was shot down. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{As a First Lieutenant in the US Air Force, Powers trained to drop nuclear bombs. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{The only boy in the family, with his sisters. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{Young Francis with his father, Oliver, and grandfather, James. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{As a young US Air Force pilot, Francis prepares for a mission. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{Heading to the edge of space required a specially designed pressure suit. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{Pilots from the CIA’s air force, circa 1956, including Powers (back row, far left). (Powers Family Collection)}

^{Powers with Lockheed’s Kelly Johnson, who designed the U-2. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{In prison, Frank lost more than twenty pounds. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{Replica of the US silver dollar and poison-tipped pin U-2 pilots were given the option of carrying and using in the event of torture. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{Standing in the cell his father once occupied, Gary Powers felt the weight of history. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{First page of a letter from Powers to Barbara, November 1, 1961. Letters were numbered to help Powers know which letters he sent and received. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{Prison journal entry. (Photo by Eric Long, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum [NASM], Washington, DC, February 3, 2011)}

^{Powers’s prison journal. (Photo by Eric Long, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum [NASM], Washington, DC, February 3, 2011)}

^{Finally free after twenty-one months, Powers reunited with his mother, Ida. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{Powers’s autobiography, published in 1970.}

^{The original tapes for use in Operation Overflight. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{Digitized version of one of the interview tapes for Operation Overflight and the original tape. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{Francis Gary Powers Jr. holding one of three Latvian-style rugs that his father wove in Vladimir Prison. A similar rug is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. (Dan Currier)}

^{The Powers family circa 1970: Frank, Sue, Dee, and Gary. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{Frank and Sue’s wedding. (Left to right) matron of honor Edith Costello, Sue, Frank, and best man Joe Giraudo.}

^{POW Medal, Silver Star, CIA Director’s Medal, and Award Citations. (Photo Courtesy of SAC and Aerospace Museum)}

^{Cover and content portion of CIA report that cleared Powers, confirming that he was at his assigned altitude when he was shot down. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{The US Air Force chief of staff, General Norton Schwartz, presents Francis Gary Powers’s posthumously awarded Silver Star to his grandchildren: Francis Gary Powers III, known as Trey, and Lindsey Barry. (US Air Force)}

^{Joe Patterson, Jon Teperson, Gary Powers Jr., Chris Conrad, and Bob Kallos at the Silver Star ceremony. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{Movie poster from Bridge of Spies, directed by Steven Spielberg. (Glendale, CA: DreamWorks, 2015)}

^{Gary Powers (left) helped Spielberg and actor Austin Stowell, who played Francis Gary Powers, with technical details. (Courtesy of Storyteller Distribution Co., LLC)}

^{On the set of Bridge of Spies, director Steven Spielberg toasts Francis Gary Powers. (Courtesy Francis Gary Powers Jr.)}

^{The Powers family circa 2015 in the Senate chamber of the Czech Republic while in Prague for a European press screening of Bridge of Spies. (Powers Family Collection)}

^{Francis Gary Powers Jr. pays his respects at the memorial of Russian pilot Sergei Safronov, the MiG pilot who was shot down by friendly fire in his pursuit of Powers on May 1, 1960. Safronov’s wife communicated to Gary Powers that she did not blame his father for her husband’s death nor bear any ill will toward him and his family, making this moment a symbol of healing between the East and the West. (Powers Family Collection)}