US Navy surveillance of the first Soviet F-class submarine to surfacenear the Cuban quarantine line
US Navy surveillance of the first Soviet F-class submarine to surfacenear the Cuban quarantine line (October 25th, 1962).A Lockheed P-2 Neptune patrol plane flies over a Soviet freighter(October/November 1962).The Soviet ship Kasimov removes 15 Soviet Ilyushin Il-28 aircraftfrom Cuba (October/November 1962). The USSR was in the process ofproviding them for local assembly in Cuba, but this was halted by themissile crisis, and Khrushchev agreed to remove them.Soviet personnel and six missile transporters are loaded onto aSoviet ship in the Port of Casilda (Cuba, November 6th,1962). The RF-101 reconnaissance jet taking the photograph casts ashadow on the lower right.A Soviet submarine near the Cuban coast controls the withdrawal ofSoviet missiles in accordance with the US-USSR agreement (November10th, 1962). American planes and helicopters flew at alow level to keep watch on the dismantling and loading operations,and Americans warships watched over Soviet freighters carrying themissiles back to the USSR.The USS Dahlgren (DDG-43), a guided missile ship, trails the SSLeninsky Komsomol as it departs the Port of Casilda (Cuba, November10th, 1962). -- source link
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