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Yesterday's Air Force: The U-2 and Gary Powers Incident
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Oct. 15, 2015 | 7:13
As the dust settled after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as competing superpowers. The former wartime allies found themselves locked in a struggle that came to be known as the Cold War. Still shrouded in secrecy over 35 years after its creation, the Lockheed U-2 was originally designed as a strategic reconnaissance aircraft, playing a crucial role during the tense years of the Cold War.
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