19. Huchthausen, October Fury, pp. 145–46. 20. Chief of Naval Operations to Commander in Chief, Atlantic Fleet et al., 24 October 1962, doc. 2 in “The Underwater Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet ...

The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of ... A U.S. ship dropped depth charges on a Soviet submarine in the Caribbean. And, most harrowing, an ...

Since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the Soviet Navy has developed a well-equipped, flexible, offensive force. Shedding its former predominantly defensive role, the Soviet Navy now possesses not ...

Summary and Key Points: During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October ... meant to signal to hostile submarine operators that they had been spotted. Soviet high command was alerted to these signals ...

submarines, troops and air force were placed on full alert. USSR ships approaching the blockade turn back. 25 October US spy planes report increased building work at the missile launch sites on Cuba.