Today in History – May 1, 1960 – Spy plane hit by shrapnel, Gary Powers bails out and is captured
1 May 1960 – Near Degtyansk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, a Central Intelligence Agency/Lockheed U-2C, 56-6693, “Article 360,” flying at approximately 80,000 feet (24,384 meters) on a Top Secret reconnaissance mission, was hit by shrapnel from an exploding Soviet V-750VN (S-75 Desna) surface-to-air missile. With his airplane damaged and out of control, pilot Francis Gary Powers […]