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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 ...
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The Real Cuban Missile Crisis
In the tense 13‑day crisis ... the history of the CIA—and had organized large-scale military exercises in the Caribbean clearly meant to rattle the Soviets and their Cuban client.
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Cuba During the Missile Crisis
Today, 50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cubans recall how their ... shooting down two Douglas B-26 Invaders and sinking several CIA ships. “At that time, most Cubans listened to the ...
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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60 years later: How many nuclear weapons did the US and USSR have in the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(Editor’s note: To mark the upcoming sixtieth anniversary of the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is re-printing this Nuclear Notebook, which was originally ...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the ... So in April 1961, the CIA trained, armed and transported 1300 Cuban exiles to invade Cuba. They landed at the Bay of Pigs, and tried ...