The Russians shot down Gary Power's U-2 .
Gary Powers
Man Moment Machine - 2005 Shot Down The U2 Spyplane 1-5 was released on: USA: 30 August 2005
The U2 spy plane with Gary Powers at the controls
If you are referring to the U2 pilot that was shot down over the USSR in 1960, that would have been Frances Gary Powers.
Show down the Soviet Union??? Or shot down IN the Soviet Union? Are you asking about Gary Francis Powers?
The U2 incident was where A united States spy plane was shot down over Russia. The pilot was Gary Powers and he was captured by the Russians, who used this to embarass the US.
The U2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by a Soviet surface-to-air missile on May 1, 1960, while flying over Soviet airspace. The incident heightened tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Powers was captured and later exchanged for a Soviet spy, Rudolf Abel, in a high-profile prisoner swap.
Yes, his U2 CIA spy plane was shot down by the Russians in 1960. He was put on trial and convicted of espionage and sentenced to 10 years in prison. In 1962 he was released in an exchange of prisoners with the Soviets.
Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot his u-2 spyplane was shot down while over the USSR causing the 1960 U2 incident
That live video was shot in Los Angeles.
Francis Gary Powers was the pilot of the Lockheed U2 spy plane that was shot down by the former USSR with a surface to air missile (SAM) in 1960. After lengthy negotiations, a prisoner exchange was made returning Powers to the United States. [JMH]
idk what U2 your referring to but im going to gues its the U2 incident durring the cold war. The U2 was a spy plane piloted by Frances Gary Powers that went down over Soviet Russia.