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Inside The Spy Plane That Was At The Center Of Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis
At the time of the Cold War, Russia had nothing that could shoot the U2 out of the sky. Even their MiG jets had a ceiling 10,000 feet below the U2's gliding altitude. One pilot said they'd buzz ...
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Davis-Monthan: Charles Lindbergh to the A-10 Warthog
Davis-Monthan has a long history in Tucson, one dating back to Charles Lindbergh and the "Spirit of St. Louis." This is the ...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis ... U-2 reconnaissance planes, we will immediately retaliate. We'll immediately bomb that missile site that took out the plane ...
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How The U.S. Snuck Aircraft Carriers Across The Ocean During The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile ... October 14, a U-2 spy plane -- which the USAF is still flying today-- flew over Cuba and snapped photographs of Soviet SS-4 Sandal medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM ...
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Events of the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
An American U2 spy plane discovered Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba. Before a response could be made, Khrushchev sent a second letter. He made the additional demand that American missiles in ...
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PHOTOS: A look back at the Cuban Missile Crisis
In 1962 the world was on edge, worried that the Cuban missile crisis, a standoff between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, could end in a nuclear war. It was a two-week battle of wills between ...
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On This Day: JFK alerted to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962
For thirteen days in October 1962, the world waited—seemingly on the brink of nuclear war—and hoped for a peaceful resolution to the Cuban Missile Crisis ... an American U-2 plane is shot ...
Opinion: What lessons on leadership can we still learn from the Cuban Missile Crisis?
October 2024 marks the 62nd anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis ... When an American military plane discovered the ...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis ... U-2 reconnaissance planes, we will immediately retaliate. We'll immediately bomb that missile site that took out the plane ...
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On This Day: Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, offered to remove the missiles if the U.S. agreed to not invade Cuba. Intro to the video Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction ... On the same day, a US spy plane was shot down over Cuba, further raising tensions. Kennedy decided to ignore the second ...
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Unknown Speaker: At the height of tension over the Cuban Crisis, with the world purged on the edge of Armageddon, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said, "The United States and the Soviet Union are ...