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Killer Submarines Sneaking Through the Blockade | The Cuban Missile Crisis | Day 09
This is the tenth of fourteen episodes following the Cuban Missile Crisis day-by-day. We'll be back tomorrow, and the day after that until the end of the crisis. All the episodes are already available to the TimeGhost Army on http://www.patreon.com/timeghosthistory or https://timeghost.tv. By joining us there you will also support the creation of these independent, realtime historical documentary series!
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The Soviets were in foreign waters…the US wasn't in Soviet space! Kennedy was just being tested by the Soviets to see what he'd do if threatened by the USSR. It wasn't piracy on th part of the US…I'm not deluding myself that all is at face value but the Soviets found an ally in Castro, who was only too happy to deal with the Cuban enemy, the US.
I highly recommend Blue Moon over Cuba: Aerial Reconnaissance during the Cuban Missile Crisis by William B. Ecker, USN (ret.) Ecker was lead pilot who flew one of the two
Navy RF-8As low-level over Cuba to get those detailed photographs. He would be the source of the comment about General Curtis LeMay pouting in his car during the awards ceremony. Ecker was not a fan of LeMay. Oh, in the book it was a convertible, not a limousine.
I may never recover from seeing that picture of lemay in a bathrobe!
Thanks to the USA, the URSS survived to WW II. Suddenly, the US people realized that Uncle Jo's followers, were not the good guys their wartime medias had said. A bit late, I would say.
I have noticed a change in the background. Two of the drinks have been moved in position. Why is that?
10:18 "US Air Force" I'm pretty sure those were Navy pilots, wearing Navy uniforms in those photos and flying RF-8 Crusaders, which the Navy had but the USAF, to my knowledge, did not.
Good Luck to you Indie… Really love ads
Before we judge Lemay too harshly , please remember Kennedy , McNamara and Johnson killed more Americans than General Curtis Lemay. The Soviets knew SAC was ready to do what ever was necessary 24 hours a day 7 days a week .
Freedom of navigation in international waters!
Lemay was a total piece of shit. Also, just shows you how ridiculous the squabbles of the atomic bombings are, when everyone forgets 5x as many people died to firebombs.
If you travel to Cuba can you visit the sites of the nukes etc you mention and show video /pics of in this series ? just wondering. Am going to Cuba 2021
My distaste for le may just keeps growing
Kinda wanna see that picture of that Cuban stumbling out of his outhouse
Funny enough, when I first saw this, I had literally just watched a video about the movie Battleship, based on the game Battleship. (To hear Indy say at the beginning, "You know the game Battleship?" Well yeah! I think I do! 🙂 )
I was thinking that Russians are bad guys. It seems that I was wrong.
Seeing LeMay has reminded me of something – the DickTionary must be completed! I don't know what TimeGhost has planned, but this is absolutely vital.
Does kruschev at this point know that the OAS signed a treaty-a lawful contract? And if he does is it that he doesn’t realize that the signing of a treaty of the nations that hold those waters in their areas does create legality of the accepted blockade orrr am I wrong completely because as far as I know exclusive economic zones weren’t a thing yet?
I understand that there is limited time but it would have been great to hear about the struggle between the political officer and the captain on the Russian sub and how close they came to launching their "special weapon" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/03/you-and-almost-everyone-you-know-owe-your-life-to-this-man/#:~:text=It's%20October%201962%2C%20the%20height,spotted%20by%20the%20American%20Navy.&text=The%20Russian%20in%20question%2C%20an,the%20nuclear%2Dtipped%20missile%20readied.
I just want to comment on the absolute professionalism of the production value of TimeGhost. Just the tiny touches in the background of Indy's set are so spot on.
Another excellent episode. Thanks Indy.
Ok am I going crazy or did I not just watch all these like a few weeks ago??
Nice series here!! However…. forget about those audios if you can't get them better. They just murmle
A close run thing, The Russian withdrew their missiles, for an agreement that the US would not invade again. ( bay of pigs) and withdraw their missiles from Turkey. Dr Strangeglove captures it all, as satire.