Francis Powers

Other Service · US Air Force · Captain

Source Documents

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Francis Powers	Birth, Custom, Death, People	US, Social Security Death Index	Fold3	Index Record	Sep 4, 2008
Francis Powers (1929)		US, Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010	Fold3	Index Record	May 31, 2013
Francis Powers (1929)			Fold3	Memorial	May 31, 2013
Arlington National Cemetery			Fold3	Memorial	Sep 1, 2013

URL	Events	Description
Air Force
interrogation
Mr. Powers was described as “commonplace”
pilot
Central Intelligence Agency
[1]
U-2 spy plane
reconnaissance
airspace
1960 U-2 incident
Jenkins, Kentucky
Pound, Virginia
Milligan College
Tennessee
United States Air Force
468th Strategic Fighter Squadron
Turner Air Force Base
Georgia
F-84 Thunderjet
Korean War
CIA
jet aircraft
[2]
captain
U-2
espionage
Soviet Union
KGB
Peshawar
Pakistan
Peshawar Air Station
S-75 Dvina
[3]
Sverdlovsk
[4]
MiG-19
Degtyarsk
Su-9
[5]
hard labor
Vladimir Central Prison
Frederic Pryor
Glienicke Bridge
Colonel
Vilyam Fisher
[6]
self-destruct
camera
photographic film
classified
suicide pill
[7]
Richard Russell
Prescott Bush
Barry Goldwater
Lockheed
KGIL
KNBC
telecopter
Curt Gentry
Lee Majors
Santa Barbara County
Bell 206 Jet Ranger
Sepulveda Dam
Burbank Airport
[8]
National Transportation Safety Board
[9]
[10]
autorotative
Arlington National Cemetery
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Intelligence Star
Prisoner of War Medal
Distinguished Flying Cross
National Defense Service Medal
George Tenet
Director's Medal
[12]
Silver Star
Lubyanka Prison
[13]
Norton Schwartz