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This Week in EUCOM History: April 30 - May 6
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April 30, 2012
On May 1, 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down in the airspace of the Soviet Union. The incident happened fifteen days before the scheduled opening of an East–West summit conference in Paris.
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