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An interior, right side profile medium shot as Sue Powers and Gary Powers Jr. accept the Director of Central Intelligence Award for their husband and father's service. The award was presented during a dinner held in Honor of Francis Gary Powers Sr. at Beale AFB, California, on May 29, 2000. Gary Powers Jr. is the son and Sue Powers is the wife of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers Sr. who was shot down while on reconnaissance mission over the former Soviet Union on May 5, 1960. Joan Dempsey, director of Central Intelligence for Community management, presented the award

An esterior, straight on medium shot as US Air Force Brigadier General Kevin Chilton (Far right), 9th Reconnaissance Wing commander, presents Sue Powers (Holding frame), Gary Powers Jr. (In flight suit), Dee Powers Rogers (In blue blazer) the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross at Beale AFB, California, on May 01,2000. Gary Powers Jr. and Dee Powers Rogers are son and daughter of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers Sr. and Sue Powers is his wife. Also representing Powers family were Gary Powers Jr. fiancee, Jen Webber (white shirt) and Dee Powers Rogers husband Mark Rogers (black suit). Francis Gary Powers Sr. was shot down while on a reconnaissance mission over the former Soviet Union on May...

An interior, right side profile medium shot as Joan Dempsey (Left), director of Central Intelligence for Community management, presents Sue Powers and Gary Powers Jr. the Director of Central Intelligence Award for their husband and father's service. The award was presented during a dinner held in Honor of Francis Gary Powers Sr. at Beale AFB, California, on May 29, 2000. Gary Powers Jr. is the son and Sue Powers is the wife of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers Sr. who was shot down while on reconnaissance mission over the former Soviet Union on May 5, 1960

Straight on medium shot from left to right as LTC Bryan Anderson, 1ST Reconnaissance Squadron Commander, Gary Powers Jr., Brigadier General Kevin Chilton, 9th Reconnaissance Wing Commander, Sue Powers, and Dee Powers Rogers watch as a U-2 (Not shown) approaches to do a fly by during an awards ceremony honoring Francis Gary Powers Sr. at Beale AFB, California on May 01, 2000. Francis Gary Powers Sr. was shot down while on a reconnaissance mission over the former Soviet Union on May 5, 1960. Gary Powers Jr. and Dee Powers Rogers are son and daughter of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers Sr., and Sue Powers is his wife

Francis "Gabby" Gabreski (center), poses with two former 8th Air Force members at the grand opening of the Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum. COL. (retired) Gabreski, an Oil City, PA, native, was the 8th Air Force's most successful fighter ace with 28 kills in the air and three on the ground during World War II while flying the P-47 Thunderbolt with the 56th Fighter Group that was nicknamed Zemke's Wolfpack after its commander Hub Zemke. Gabreski scored one triple and eight double kills. Exact Date Shot Unknown Published in AIRMAN Magazine August 1996

U.S. Army Air Corps SGT. Louis Sleeper, a World War II veteran, takes a look inside a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft during the Aerospace and Arizona Days Air Show at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., on April 2, 2005. He was a B-17 ball turret gunner from 1942-1945 and he was also a Prisoner-Of-War (POW) for six months. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by AIRMAN 1ST Class Jesse Shipps)(Released)

U.S. Army Air Corps SGT. Louis Sleeper (right), a World War II veteran, enjoys the air show during the Aerospace and Arizona Days Air Show at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., on April 2, 2005. He was a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft ball turret gunner from 1942-1945 and he was also a Prisoner-Of-War (POW) for six months. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by AIRMAN 1ST Class Jesse Shipps)(Released)

U.S. Air Force TECH. SGT. Brian Plauche, a Crew CHIEF assigned to the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Aerial Demonstration Team, marshals the F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft into position, after the Team Landed at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, September 9, 2004. This landing marks the first time in a decade the USAF Thunderbird demonstration team has visited Guam. The Thunderbirds will be performing during an air show held Sunday, September 12, 2004. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Bennie J. Davis III) (Released)

Right side profile medium shot as USAF HH-60 Pavehawk helicopter pilot US Air Force 1ST. Lieuenant Danny Amegin (not shown), of the 41st Rescue Squadron, Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, maneuvers his aircraft into position during a pararescueman (not shown) drop off simulation, near Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada. Members of the 41st Rescue Squadron, are participating in Exercise Desert Rescue VIII a joint Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine (Army, Navy and Marine forces not shown) exercise to prepare the each services for the event of a war time rescue in a joint environment

An interior, straight on medium shot as Tom Bowen (Left), Technical Director of the 9th Physiological Support Squadron for Beale AFB, CA, presents Gary Powers Jr. a pressure suit and helmet during a dinner held in Honor of Francis Gary Powers Sr. at Beale AFB, California, on May 29, 2000. Powers Jr. is the son of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers Sr. who was shot down while on a reconnaissance mission over the former Soviet Union on May 5, 1960. The suit dates back to the time when Francis Gary Powers Sr. flew the U-2

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Base: Beale Air Force Base

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Scene Camera Operator: SRA Johnny Saldivar, USAF

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Straight on medium shot of US Marine GUNNERY Sergeant Elder, Platoon Sergeant, 2nd Platoon, Company A, 5th Force Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marines, lands safely with his MC5 Freefall Square Parachute after completing a 9-thousand foot combat jump from a USAF C-130 Hercules aircraft (Not shown) during Force Reconnaissance Exercises at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam

Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall is suited up prior to her U-2 Dragonlady flight. STAFF SGT. Andrew McLean, an aerospace physiologist specialist, integrates the full pressure suit

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Jason Gilkey, Physiological Support Division Technician, 9th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS), 363rd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (EAMXS), refills a liquid oxygen ventilator at a forward deployed location in Southwest Asia, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Medium shot. SENIOR AIRMAN Jad Aoun, and Technical Sergeant. Dennis Washington, both Air Transportation Specialists and members of the 86th Air Mobility Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, with help of local laborers, build pallets of humanitarian supplies at the International Airport at Maputo, Mozambique, Africa, 17 March 2000. Their team is deployed in support of Operation Atlas Response, a Humanitarian Aid Operation to help the people of Mozambique, after severe flooding displaced over a million people from their homes

Master Sgt. Jose Rodriguez, a basic military training

U-2 "Dragonlady" pilot Major Kris "Judge" Duckett briefs

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Members of the Physiological Training Unit demonstrate parasailing for a film crew from Imax Systems Corp. The crew is shooting a motion picture documenting astronaut candidate training from the point of view of the astronaut. The film is being produced for initial release to the National Air and Space Museum

Members from the 7th Reconnaissance Squadron prepare

US Air Force Captain Darrell Dunn, U-2 pilot, 363rd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, gets suited up before his flight with the help of USAF SENIOR Airmen Cindy Nakoski and USAF SENIOR AIRMAN John Harry, of physiology support. CPT Dunn, SRA Nakoski, and SRA Harry are part of the coalition force here to support Operation Southern Watch, a military effort to enforce the no-fly and no-drive zone in Southern Iraq

Straight on medium shot as US Air Force enlisted personnel from the 332 Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron Drill Team perform in a Freestyle Drill competition at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi on May 20th, 2000

Medium shot, rear view of two US Army 5-ton Cargo trucks being loaded with material by four Soldiers. Snow is on the ground at Fort Drum, New York. A line of red brick buildings is seen at the right side of the frame. This mission is in support of Operation Restore Hope

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