Lost Black Cats

On May 1 1960 A U-2 Was Shot Down Over Russia And Its Pilot Gary Powers Was Captured Followed By Premier Khrushchev Using The Long-Waited Summit Meeting In Paris As A Public Platform To Denounce U.S. Intrusion On Russian Air Space And To Demand An Apology From President Eisenhower. All These Events Made U-2 A World-Renowned Spyplane. This Extraordinary High Altitude Reconnaissance Aircraft Had Also Been Used Over China And Her Vicinity. A Us-Roc Joint Entity (Black Cat Squadron) Was Organized To Conduct The Operation From Taiwan For Fifteen Years. Five U-2S Were Shot Down By Communist Surface-To-Air Missiles. Two Of The Nationalist Chinese Pilots Survived The Missile Explosion Yet Were Severely Wounded And Then Captured By The People