Operation Overflight A Memoir of the U-2 Incident

Francis Gary Powers served as a pilot in the Air Force and completed twenty-seven U-2 photographic reconnaissance missions for the CIA, including several overflights of the Soviet Union, until shot down by a Soviet surface-to-air missile on May 1, 1960. Upon his return to the United States in 1962, he flew the U-2 as an engineering test pilot for Lockheed Aircraft. Powers died in a helicopter crash in 1977. Francis Gary Powers, Jr., is founder and director of the Cold War Museum, Fairfax, Virginia. Polmar and Powers both live in the Washington, D.C., area.Powers, Francis Gary is the author of 'Operation Overflight A Memoir of the U-2 Incident' with ISBN 9781574884227 and ISBN 1574884220.