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Cuba During the Missile Crisis
Militiamen trained in the Escambray mountains while superpowers tested each other’s resolve. The background in this composite image is from a U-2 photo of Cuba ...
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The Overlooked Role of the Vought RF-8A and VFP-62 in the Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S. Navy and Marine Corps RF-8A Crusaders played an important, often forgotten, high-speed low-level and dangerous recon ...
MacDill's role during the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis provided some of the most tense moments in American history, and MacDill Air Force Base played a ...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of ... an American spy plane on a mission over Cuba fell off the radar. Robert Caro, Writer: You hear the ...
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Remembering the Dark Days of the Cuban Missile Crisis
What did analysts find in the recon photographs from the Cuban Missile Crisis? http://j.mp/RwFMbj Former CIA analyst Dino Brugioni was one of the first to spot ...
PBS8y
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of ... an American spy plane on a mission over Cuba fell off the radar. Robert Caro, Writer: You hear the ...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
This would influence some of the decisions he took in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Narrator: In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew a corrupt right-wing dictatorship, and took power in Cuba.