Navy veteran Jack Davitt was on a ship as part of the blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This week's Stories of Service features a Navy veteran who served in the Korean War and the Cuban ...

Cuban Missile Crisis ... -- Two U. S. Navy destroyers halted a Lebanese ship sailing ... the Defense Department announced today as the United States resumed its naval blockade and ...

Cuban Missile Crisis. Events of 1962; ... All ships of any kind bound for Cuba, ... "The Soviet Press this morning was filled with vituperative attack on the Americans-Cuban blockade.

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 nuclear war. Take a look back at the infamous ...

US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy signs the order of a naval blockade of Cuba, on October 23, 1962 in White House, Washington DC, during the Cuban missile crisis.

What happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis — the 13-day standoff that ... Soviet ships are shown ... 1962 informing the American people of his decision to set up a naval blockade against ...

State of Global Affairs Prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... 1962, discussing a passenger ship that approached the blockade line. Marc Selverstone discussed the implications. ...

In the wake of the Cuban missile crisis the Soviet Union removed the planes from Cuba. This photo was published in The Miami Herald December 7, 1962. 10/25/1962: Navy destroyers at dockside in Key ...

When the naval blockade was in place, Soviet ships initially continued to sail towards Cuba, but Khrushchev ordered them to stop and turn around. However, the American Navy did search other vessels.

It aided space flights, participated in the blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and circled the globe without refueling. The Enterprise will go down in history as one of the most special ...

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.