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Skunk Works Digest         Tuesday, 2 March 1993       Volume 02 : Number 088

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	Re: Russian Overflights of the past

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From: Dr. Strangelove <zarda@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 93 14:14:15 CST
Subject: Re: Russian Overflights of the past

> 
> "JOE P." <PYRDEK@vax.edinboro.edu> writes:
>  >I just caught (or at least thought I caught) a very breif teaser
>  >on one of the late night "news" programs last night regarding the
>  >Gary Powers U-2 shootdown.
>  >The tease was that there were 200 or more flyers who were shot down, 
>  >crashed, landed or vanished in various U-2 flights over Russia (ex USSR)
>  >in the past years.  
> 
> Hmm... I hope they didn't specifically say 200 were lost in U-2s,
> since there were only a total of about *100* U-2/TR-1s built.

  Well I assume the program is not only about shot down U-2's.
  There wass an article in a local alturnative paper about American 
  pilots taken prisoner during th Cold War. One account was during the
  the mid 50's a PBY Catolina(Black Cat?) was on a recon mission 
  in the Baltic off Lithuania and was reportedly shot down by a Mig 15.
  Inteligence later picked up that there where survivors from the mission
  but they were never returned. 

  There where also stories of a B-29 shot dowen in the Pacific during a 
  recon off the Soviet Union, again there were supposedly survivors.
  Again it would not surprise me that there where American aircraft shot
  down when they got too close or when the over flew the Soviet Union.
  And again if it was both intrest to keep such things quiet I'm sure they
  did. If I remember right in reading May Day, it was internal politics,
  that forced Nikita to put the Power's on trial. 

  Excuse me if I spelled something wrong or got my facts mixed up. I'm
  not able to contribute often so... this is nice.

  Ken


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