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When Shall Their Glory Fade?: The Stories of the Thirty Eight Battle Honours of the Army Commandos
By James Dunning
Storming Monte La Difensa The First Special Service Force at the Winter Line, Italy 1943
By Bret Werner
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 44451" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Powers</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Francis Gary</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>CIA U-2 Program</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Civilian (pilot)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Intelligence Star</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1963</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 17.8.1929 Jenkins,Kentucky</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Oliver and Ida Powers</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>grew up in Pound,Virginia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Milligan College,Johnson City,Tennessee</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned 2Lt,USAF 1950</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>pilot</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>468 Strategic Fighter Squadron</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>discharged 1956 (Captain)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>CIA U-2 Program 1956</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>U-2 shot down 1.5.1960 Russia - captured</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>prisoner exchange 10.2.1962</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>test pilot,Lockheed 1963-70</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>reporter,KGIL radio station,Los Angeles</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>helicopter pilot,KNBC TV station,Los Angeles</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Barbara Moore 1955 until 1962</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Claudia (Sue) Edwards 1963</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2 children</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>author "Operation Overflight:A Memoir of the U-2 Incident" (1970)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>posthumous awards Silver Star 2012 and D.F.C. 2000</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>killed in helicopter crash 1.8.1977 California</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Arlington National Cemetery,Virginia Section 11 Lot 685-2 Grid O/P-15.5</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/f-powers.15537/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/15/15537-307c030d9a95817a344c500b0330e792.jpg?1591399455" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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