Though I was a little boy at the time I remember quite well when Gary Powers was shot down in the USSR piloting his U2 spy plane. I am a pretty avid student of

Though I was a little boy at the time I remember quite well when Gary Powers was shot down in the USSR piloting his U2 spy plane. I am a pretty avid student of history and never knew we were flying U2's over China with Taiwanese pilots. Pretty certain the two pilots (out of the five) shot down who survived and were taken prisoner by the Chinese did not make the news in America. Met a retired U2 pilot once who had flown over North Korea multiple times. He didn't volunteer the information (relative told me) and politely refused to answer most of my questions. Even in retirement most of what I wanted to know was still classified.