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Originally Posted by steveno
a bit more of history in that the U-2 was not the first airplane to overfly the USSR. the RB-45 flying out of England was the first
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Then the RB-47's. One of which was shot down over the Barents Sea in July 1960 with the loss of the pilot and three "Crows". The navigator and co-pilot were captured and held for six months in the Soviet Union.
The story is told in the out-of-print book
The Little Toy Dog by William L. White.