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 ...

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 ...

During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the captain ... continues today thanks to deputy commander Vasily Arkhipov (1926-1998), who happened to be aboard that submarine. He opposed the torpedo ...

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.