USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On May 1, 1960, the pilot of an American U-2 spyplane was shot down while flying though Soviet airspace.

Detailed explanation-2: -The U-2 incident was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union in 1960 and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed “Dragon Lady", is an American single-engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated from the 1950s–2020s by the United States Air Force (USAF) or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1960, one of the most notorious chapters in the Cold War began after American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down and captured during a spying mission over the Soviet Union. Since its first flight in 1956, the U-2 had become the United States’ most effective tool for peering behind the Iron Curtain.

Detailed explanation-5: -Air Force officials said the photograph was captured Feb. 3 over the “Central Continental United States.” A day later, the airship moved off the coast of South Carolina and was shot down by a Sidewinder missile launched from an F-22 Raptor fighter jet.