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Pilot shot down over USSR awarded Silver Star posthumously
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June 15, 2012 | 1:12
Chief of Staff of the Air Force awarded Capt Francis Gary Powers the Silver Star posthumously in a ceremony Friday at the Pentagon. Powers, flying a U-2 for the CIA at the time, was shot over the Soviet Union in the late 1950s.
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