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Photographer: RIA Novosti archive, image #35172 / Chernov / CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikipedia Commons
Taken: November 22, 1960
Caption: Powers Wears Special Pressure Suit
Ф. Г. Пауэрс в специальной экипировке
Additional Description: Francis Gary Powers wearing special pressure suit for stratospheric flying was an American spy whose Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down by a Soviet surface-to-air missile outside Sverdlovsk. Фрэнсис Гарри Пауэрс в специальной экипировке для длительных полетов в стратосфере - американский шпион, чей самолет-разведчик "Локхид У-2" был сбит советской зенитной ракетой под Свердловском. Россия, Москва
Submitted: November 22, 2015, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p339118
File Size: 0.302 Megabytes

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