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Lot 554:
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Description
John McKone, US Spy plane pilot during the Cold War, signed 8×10 photo with inscription. John McKone was shot down by a Russian MiG fighter jet on 1st July 1960 almost a month after the Gary Powers incident, one of only two survivors of his crew, he was held by the KGB at the notorious Lubyanka prison in Moscow and released in January 1961 immediately after the inauguration of JFK.
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