Francis Gary Powers

Francis Gary Powers often referred to as simply Gary Powers was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U2 incident.

Powers was born in Jenkins, Kentucky, or Burdine, the son of Oliver Winfield Powers, a coal miner, and his wife Ida Melinda Ford. His family eventually moved to Pound, Virginia, just across the state border. He was the second born and only male of six children. His family lived in a mining town, and because of the hardships associated with the life in such a town, his father wanted Powers to become a doctor. He hoped his son would achieve the higher earnings of such a profession and felt the life of a doctor would involve less hardship than any job in his hometown.

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