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    "ocrText": "TOP Science\nRoad\n.0\n\"Then on September 24, 1959, a U-2 based at Atsugi, near Tokyo,\ndrifted down for an emergency belly landing at Fugisawa airstrip. As a\nrescue team rushed to his aid, the pilot remained in his cockpit. Not until\na U. S. helicopter disgorged a squad of Americans in civilian clothes did\nthe pilot pull back his canopy and shout, \"I'm okay!\" Curious Japanese\nnoted that the blue-black plane bore no markings; neither did the pilot's\nflight suit, though he carried a revolver on his hip. The rescue squad\ndrew pistols to keep the Japanese back, which aroused even more\ncuriosity. \"\nComment: All of these incidents were reported in the press at\nthe time they occurred. The February, 1956, date cited by the True\nMagazine story is incorrect. The Everett\ncrash actually occurred in December\nof 1956. Concerning the Fugisawa, Japan, incident, the 16 May issue of\nTime Magazine reported as follows:\n\"Inevitably, though, there were a few crashed, and, inevitably,\nword got around. In 1957 the Pentagon officially acknowledged the\nU-2, described it as a high-altitude, single-engined weather research\nplane which it surely is. But the public rarely got a look at it.\nThen one day last September members of a Japanese glider club were\nshooting landings at a light-p lane strip 40 miles southwest of Tokyo.\nIn midafternoon a black jet, its engine dead, wobbled down on the strip.\n\"Fifteen minutes later a U.S. Navy helicopter arrived, disgorged\na squad of Americans in civilian clothes. For the first time the pilot\nopened his canopy, called \"I'm O. K. \" and climbed out. The Japanese\nnoted that he carried a pistol at his waist, that his flight suit bore no\nmarkings. Moments later more U. S. civilians arrived, drew pistols\nand ordered the Japanese away from the plane. But not before Eiichiro\nSekigawa, editor of Tokyo's Air Views, got a meticulous description. \"\nO. Statement: \"Since the flights began in early 1956, U-2's are known\nto have operated out of Alaska, Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines, England,\nGermany, Turkey and Pakistan.\"\nComment: NASA news release of 5 May 1960 included the following\nstatement:\n-6-"
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