A fierce battle of wills between America and China over the downed U.S. spy plane threatened to trigger a new Cold War last ... echo of the 1960 incident when an American U2 spy plane was shot ...

It’s extremely rare for a civilian - even a journalist - to score an edge-of-space ride in the backseat of a U-2 spy plane ... a prisoner swap. The Cold War incident attracted international ...

In the first part of this series about the Cold War, we covered Gary Powers ... Francis Gary Powers, pilot of the USA U-2 spy plane which crashed in Russia, May 1960, appearing before a US ...