American military pilot (1929–1977) who attained wordwide notoriety in 1960 when the U-2 spy plane he was piloting was shot down over the Soviet Union, in one of the most acutely embarrassing incidents of the Eisenhower administration. Powers was killed in 1977 when the news helicopter he was flying ran out of fuel and crashed a few miles from the airport. Signed book: Operation Overflight. First edition, first printing. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. Hardcover with dustjacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 375 pages. Signed on the first free end page in black felt tip. In very good condition, with scattered toning and soiling, blacked out library markings on first free end page, adhesive remnants to rear free end page, and dustjacket adhered to pastedowns. RRAuction COA.
