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Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...
This photo was published in The Miami Herald December 7, 1962. 10/25/1962: Navy destroyers at dockside in Key West. MORE: Russian warships, nuclear submarine enter Havana Harbor under watch of U.S ...
The name was derived from then Cuban President Fidel Castro by spelling his surname backwards.. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, upon discovery of SS-4 missiles being assembled in Cuba, the U.S. Government considered several options including a blockade (an act of war under international law, so it was called a "quarantine"), an airstrike, or a military strike against the Cuban missile positions.
On October 23, 1962, as Commanding Officer of Photo Reconnaissance Squadron 62 (), then-Commander Ecker led the first low-level reconnaissance flight over Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis and (together with his wing man, Lieutenant Bruce Wilhelmy, and four other VFP-62 pilots) took the first close-up photos of the Soviet missile bases in Cuba. [1]
Flashback to the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. The “naval training’ mission is a clear message and reminder to the U.S. of Moscow’s foothold in or own hemisphere — thanks to Cuba ...
B-59 was stationed near Cuba during the 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 and was pursued and harassed by US Navy vessels. Senior officers in the submarine, out of contact with Moscow and the rest of the world and believing they were under attack and possibly at war, came close to firing a T-5 nuclear torpedo at the US ships.
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Image title: Reconnaissance objectives in Cuba, 1962. (U.S. Air Force photo) Orientation: Normal: Horizontal resolution: 300 dpi: Vertical resolution: 300 dpi