Gary Powers' U-2 is Shot Down Over the Soviet Union - Animated
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2020
- Francis "Gary" Powers enters the cockpit of his U-2 spy plane for an overflight deep into the Soviet Union. He's going to take photographs of the secretive Soviet ICBM development programme. It is believed that the Soviet arsenal does not contain a surface to air missile that can reach the 70,000ft cruising altitude of his aircraft...
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This.
Yes please -some guy in the U.S.
Really informative and enjoyable, thanks 👍
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Dear Mr Khrushchev,
I would like to state that Gary Powers mission from Northern Pakistan into the USSR was simply to provide a weather report for the United States.
President Eisenhower was planning a duck hunt in the area and wanted to know if he should bring his umbrella.
Yours sincerely,
The C.I.A
Seems legit
Uh huh sureeeee we all believe you mr. cia
Ahh, well that is alright then, no worries. Terribly sorry for the misunderstanding!
Dear CIA,
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Yours sincerely,
Mr Khrushchev
Understandable have a great day🤣
Kruschev: WHAT IS THIS?! Who is he?!
Eisenhower: He is a... High-Altitude Weather Enthusiast.
Kruschev: Okay ohh, Wait a minute, why does he have a gun and a posion needle?!
Eisenhower: Because he is a... Very Naughty High-Altitude Weather enthusiast.
Wrong president by several years
Lol
Oversimplified
nice u took that from oversimplified
I mean, we kinda painted ourselves into a corner with that one. :-/
@@pierremaggi8661 no it isn't
aha, the old "NASA research gone wrong" excuse!
Classic, wacky government cover up!
Cue that apparently just happening again
the Soviet Union didn't say the pilot is alive is the biggest brain move i ever hear
the power of collective problem solving and thinking?
@@MikeFrame ironically it was just because Khrushchev told them to
@@Laotzu.Goldbug America and the sincerity of the president because he does not lie like an angel
nobody:
the CIA cover-up story: bro its just weather plane
look there's a camera right there it's a prank bro
In fact, On May 6, 1960 the CIA presented a " NASA Lockheed U-2 " with fictitious registration 55741 at the Dryden Flight research center at Edwards AFB to the Press ...
Weather plane, weather balloon you know they just kind of go up and come down.
Haha yeah, I was off course, by like an entire continent if he'd made it to Murmansk
Haaa what a joke
Damn, six minutes flies by quickly. I get what she means now
I get the job done under 3. Step up your game, son.
@@Jasonhb07 Maverick supersonic, I'll be there in 30 seconds.
@@brianlaneherder3666 You can go 30 seconds?? Look at Mr. Stud-Muffin over here...
Me a virgin: I see no god up here, other than me!
I didn't know the details of the ejection. Answers a lot of questions I had about this incident.
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Nah, in real life he has a thick somerset accent... Closer to the wurzels
I feel reminded of "The Civil War" by ken Burns when i watch your videos.
Because it's calm, not bornig, but just calm speaking with very good research being the foundation.
But please don't let others push you into rushing new videos. It's not worth it in my opinion, the quality is crucial, I guess everyone agrees on that.
@@Leon-mt6ht Ken Burns' Louis and Clark documentary is outstanding as well. About their push west and how difficult that expedition was.
@@Leon-mt6ht Ken Burns also did a great Mark Twain documentary.
I've heard stories that Gary Powers was treated shunned because he did not manage to arm the self destruct. I always thought this was a bit harsh when you consider his plane fell apart around him. His are not a pair of shoes I would like to walk a mile in.
I saw an SA-2D in person for the first time recently, and holy crap it is a big missile! Very intimidating looking.
So where the bloodhounds. Very intimidating in person.
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I've enjoyed all the videos so far. Thanks for this. Very professional, informative and enjoyable listening to these old battles.
You can really see how much effort you put into these! Great content mate!!!
Thanks a ton!
Excellent presentation as usual. Its really refreshing to see such great work from a 1 man band and its clear to see you have a great passion for history.
We've all heard of the U2 spy plane, gary powers incident. But its always been a bit hazy as to exactly what happened and where and when. This video ticks all those boxes and has made the event much much clearer in my mind. Loving you work!
Byfar the most underrated video of yours. The story itself is fascinating, and the way its told is excellent. I wish more people could have consumed this piece of content.
This is an excellent channel and a wonderful way to sum up some of the most important historic events.
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Thank you so much!
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Your choice of the incident is excellent. Can't wait for the next one.
Excellent work, best 6 minutes of my day off.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I just discovered this channel a few days ago, and I'm In awe lol. I would love to see a time-lapse on the Battle off Samar in 1944. Its a very historically significant battle in that it was the first time the Japanese utilized kamikaze tactics with success in WWII. And moreover, the heroic actions of the officers on the US side are still talked about to this day.
Honestly for as famous as that battle is, I'm dumbfounded that there is almost no actual mention or focus on the landings that proceeded it, nor much about the land battles that took place across the Philippines. There were like 3 Japanese armies there, and over 400,000 Japanese troops died there.
I am pretty good at history, but you are nailing it on the head! I just found you and this is the 3rd video I watched, thank you, just subscribed!
Another great story. Give a thought to doing "Operation Eldorado Canyon" from RAF Lakenheath, RAF Upper Heyford and Navy operations to Tripoli Libya in 1986.
I’d love to see a vid on that!
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Not much is known about that air strike.
I did learn a lot, thank you very much for your work!
These videos are made extremely well. Very good. Thank you.
i've seen the engine of the u2 shot down over cuba. they have it on display in havana war museum
The pieces from this one are also perfectly preserved in the museum of the armed forces in Moscow, really cool.
3:42 "You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round~ 🎶"
How the hell did he survive that ordeal?
if we go down down if we go down down 😎
Love this channel! Keep it up!
Well done, short and to the point. Thanks! 🙂
He hit on this very shortly, but the "self destruct" system mentioned would not have destroyed the whole plane as many would assume (even Eisenhower assumed this). It was rather a very small charge (only a couple pounds) only meant to destroy the camera. Another fun act, the U-2 that Power's was shot down in was actually a frankinstined U-2 that had already been in one serious accident before. I challenge Operations Room channel to look into the stories of the other 6 U-2s that were shot down. Many people know of the Power's shootdown, but have never heard of the other 6 U-2s that were shot down between 1960 and 1978.
Challenge? Mentioned in the video already, unless you meant "other 5".
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These time lapse videos are outstanding! Thank you for these excellent lessons. Will you please make a time lapse video on the Battle of Leyte Gulf?
Great suggestion!
The best thing about this story is his Name tbh
@UpNorth lol...that's outrageous. Either his parents were utterly oblivious individuals...or astonishingly, shamelessly self-aggrandizing.
@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372 or they had a sense of humor.
@@MFenix206 Possibly. Fair. :)
"Manley Power" though, lol...Forgot about that guy. Four-star name.
Fabulous as always. Any chance you could put together the Raid on Saint Nazaire?
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I like how you made the icon a "Black Triangle" almost like the TR-3B!
Fantastic content, clear consise and to the point. No bias, no opinions, just the hard facts. I love it!
Much appreciated!
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Thank you!
Good report. Factual without a lot of fluff. Just what we History Nerds love. 👍
Always wondered about this shoot down. Are you planning more WW2 content or are going to see more Cold War stuff too? Great video, love your content
Hey thanks! My next video is Operation Linebacker II - Vietnam. After that it's up to my Patreons!
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Well done. It's amazing that he survived.
yes.. from 70000 ft..
Not amazing a injustice
It's amazing that pilot wasn't executed.
@@TheTallMan50 you know, the soviets arent hollywood monsters...
just saying
@@deanboy2416 Maybe not now, but back in 1960 with the threat of nuclear war the Soviets weren't fucking around.
Are you doing D-Day or Torch?
I know a bit about Frank Powers' mission, but I did not know that it was supposed to conclude with a landing in Norway. I love learning things. Thank you to the producer(s) of this piece.
In fact, On May 6, 1960 the CIA presented a " NASA Lockheed U-2 " with fictitious registration 55741 at the Dryden Flight research center at Edwards AFB to the Press ...
Missed this video somehow although i watched all your newest videos but here i am.
Nice video mate
Thank you!
The Polish historian Bogusław Wołoszański described the story of the shooting down of Francis Gary Powers over the Soviet Union and he described in his program "Sensations of the 20th century" that at one of the airports there was also a Sukhoi Su-9 plane on the way, which attempted to intercept the U-2, but it was unarmed and failed. Apparently, the pilot from the ground even received an order to ram the U-2.
another great video, thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video
I knew the general overview of this event but from the moment he's hit and when he lands, that freefall seems incredibly scary.
America this is just one of the slaves
You should do a video on lesser know stuff also like Operation Praying Mantis
Great publication.
Hi, enjoy your great work. Keep it up.
Eamonn
Thanks, will do!
Any plans to make one of these for Operation Bolo, or the Son Tay Raid?
The best part is that Powers was supposed to end his live and he didn't... Smart boiii
ShamAKM Coward.
amazing work. Lets not forget Rudolf Anderson.
Back in the day, there was a US Air Force Base in Aguadilla, P.R. (Ramey Air Force Base) part of the Strategic Air Command, from where U-2’s regularly took off on photographic recon missions.
The base now a civilian airport, is at the northwestern tip of the Island therefore it was closer to Cuba, which was also being photographed because of the ongoing Cold War with the Soviets.
Damn America, is Cuba a greatness?
Always interesting!
The SA-2.....a telephone pole with a rocket attached to it
Brilliant as always. Was nicely surprised when the notification came up. I didn’t know a Mig was shot down too. Was the pilot ok?
Thanks!
Pilot killed apparently
The Operations Room that’s gutting!
This was some dark humor level stuff
Carlo Rey Tansiongco dark humour?!
PCTechHub there always has to he something faulty with the russian military. Its almost like a meme throughout history. Biggest manpower but worst logistics and army organization in the first world war. The Russians discovering the idea of the indirect attack and losing it when they purged their officer ranks. WW2 human wave attacks. And the occassional shoot down your own aircraft inside friendly territory.
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Miracle in Dunkirk nxt time lapse
Good shit
Thanks!
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4:12 Wow, that is a surprising detail that I never knew about
Awesome video, I love it
Elapsed time or local etc. time would be great in the video.
There is a great movie about the prisoner swap with Tom Hanks I believe.
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Can you do a story on John Downey? He is from my home town where I still live.
Have you done the destruction of the Dumar bridge in Hanoi by the USAF when they were testing the early PAVEWAY bomb guidance system dropped from F-111 aardvarks??
This leads me to believe that Power's U2 did not have any type of missile launch warning system and also that Powers did not see the launch visually?
I love this channel.
You would think the self destruct would automatically trigger at the same time as the ejection seat. I mean thats how I would engineer it.
can u make part 2 of the Impero?
The self destruct should of been automatically engaged vs manual engaged
Ooooo new episode
btw i really enjoyed your vid on the tripitz!
Can you so kindly narrate the entire 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 7th crusades. Thanks lol.
This is the way I like my history - just the facts, man ...
Ah yes, the old "just one more pull and we'll be done here" trap from the MMORPG days, I remember that chaos well!
According to Sergey Krushchev's book, the battery fired only one rather than three missiles successfully, with the other two failing to launch. It was not expected to be effective, which I presume is why other batteries kept engaging and eventually hitting the friendly MiG. There was also an interception by an unarmed Sukhoi (that happened to be in transit from the factory to its westerly unit at the time) with orders to ram the plane before any of the SAMs were fired, but the pilot missed his one "chance" and did not have enough fuel for further passes.
I'm a distant relative of his, I'll say he came from nothing and went on to something.
👌 brother
As far as I know, the story was a bit more complicated than hitting with the third missile. There were all kinds of adventures with their fighters, etc.
The other version of this says Article 360 flamed out and dropped to around 30,000 feet where the V-75 (SA-2) disabled it. To me, this is plausible for two reasons: (a), this airplane was a lemon and never should have been used on the longest, most perilous mission of the Overflight program. Powers himself in his autobiography said it had an intermittent fuel tank problem and the autopilot had begun to malfunction, a critical event for a mission as lengthy and dangerous as this one. (b), Powers had been having trouble with his wife since before they were married. He had difficulty sleeping during the three days in which they were trying to launch the mission from Peshawar. If he dozed off or his mind wandered for only a moment, disaster was certainly possible, especially with aircraft reliability, Power’s decision to continue without the autopilot and the human factor in play. And there is another intriguing possibility expounded (and, to the best of my research, suspiciously never repeated) by U-2 historian Chris Pocock in “U-2 Spyplane”: Powers, on a fishing trip and after a few beers with his buddy Sammy Snider, admitted that Article 360’s J-75 engine had indeed stopped running before the SA-2 missiles arrived. Sixty years later, the CIA’s greatest spy controversy lives on. Powers’ son insists his father’s version (the same as dramatized here) is the true one. He claims in his book “Spy Pilot” that he found documentation proving that the U-2 was at 70,500 feet when the mission ended. I continue to believe the U-2 Incident is similar to a line from Oliver Stone’s “JFK”: a mystery in a riddle wrapped around an enigma.
can you do Rudolf Anderson over Cuba ? thanks
It's hard to imagine a world were a country would almost go to nuclear war just because someone was taking pictures of it. In a day and age where you can see pictures of your house from space for free, I guess I just don't have that idea of privacy. Not that I'd do anything worth seeing from space at my house, just one of those things that's changed so much.
Ofcoz..Just violated the sovereign country airspace, pretend to be a weather research plane which you were clearly not, play foolish games with the superpower and your "imagination" won't be quick enough to see the oncoming (Russian) Sam's..peace to yah all! Conclusion: fly over your own country, respect others just as you would want your country to be respected. Oh..and do not lie about weather "research"..
Gary Powers wrote a book about the event and his captivity. It is called Operation Overflight. Excellent book.
Do Battle of the Philippine Sea, please!
There's a memorial to this man in downtown Greenville, SC
Bridge of Spies is a sick movie though
Do 3rd battle of solomon sea (ijn kirishima vs uss washington)
Powers is from my home town.
is this the music from Age of Empires?
back last year me and my class was repering an old floor and under the floor bords ther where an old news paper with the head line being that a U-2 had been shot down over USSR