The Gary Powers Incident

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The Gary Powers Incident

• By Peter Scott, Nick Casco, and Corey Stepp

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Table of Contents

• The Flight
• The Crash
• The Capture
• The Result
• Works Cited
• Picture and Video Credits
• The End

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The Flight

• Operation Grand Slam
• May 1st, 1960 (May Day holiday in Russia)
• Based from Peshawar, Pakistan
• Intended to take photos of Soviet military bases
• Supposed to land in Bodo, Norway

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The Flight

• Soviets were on high alert
• Powers was able to take pictures of some nuclear
  facilities
• Soviet fighter jets tried to intercept
• Brought down by a brand-new SAM system near
  Yekaterinburg

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The Crash

• S-75 Dvina Missile system
  Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane
• Maximum range of 65,000 feet
  Maximum service ceiling of 70,000 feet
• The Missile reportedly destroyed a Soviet fighter
  jet behind the U2, causing the fragile U2s wings
  to tear off
• When Powers landed, he was immediately captured
  but did not try to use a special silver dollar
  with a built-in poison needle on himself or his
  captors

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The Crash

• The CIA tried to cover up the crash, and the
  Soviets didnt release details about the incident
  itself. There is thus little public info on the
  flight and crash of the U2

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The Capture

• American Government thought Powers had died in
  the crash.
• Shows American news coverage of the announcement
  of Powers survival
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vEaf6cydnJG0

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The Capture

• Sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage
• Audio clip from trial in Moscow
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The Result

• The Vienna summit was canceled
• The wreckage of the plane was shown in a museum
  in Moscow
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vZm0RkOnTpvw

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Works Cited

• http//www.americanheritage.com/content/day-we-sho
  t-down-u-2
• http//web.archive.org/web/20060713154414/http//w
  ww.cia.gov/csi/studies/winter98_99/art02.html
• http//ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPa
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Picture and Video Credits

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileUsaf.u2.750pix.j
  pg
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileSa-2camo.jpg
• http//www.nwhm.org/media/category/exhibits/spies/
  u220spy20plane20incident20newspaper20clipping
  .jpg
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileU2_GrandSlam.png
  
• http//www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/u2/ga
  ry-powers.jpg

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The End!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Special thanks to
• Nick Peter Corey Leonidas
  Sakellarion
• My Little Pony Microsoft PowerPoint 2003
• Muffins and Pie Berthiaumes Mom Google
  Earth
• The stupid Soviet Officer who couldnt hit an
  airplane with a freakin SAM
• The stupid CIA for covering up details and making
  it impossible for us to find any freakin data on
  the flight and crash