Thread: 50 years ago today the Cuban Missile Crisis began.

Yep, saw it. As you say, Very interesting.

Originally Posted by barney

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Pity it all comes crashing down when the world ends on my 50th birthday, I hope the Mayans were wrong!

Hope you have a full calendar of activities planned for the next 63 days!

My bucket list is a little too long to complete in time!

Am too young to remember this it is all history to me. My father though managed to miss the entire event. He had left on a crocodile shooting trip before it started and it was over by the time he returned. Strange to think that the instant communication we take for granted today was the stuff of science fiction not so long ago. Most people seem to associate the crisis with the radio news reports.

If any one on here is interested google Che can't spell his last name quote about this.

While I'm not big on the yanks if he was in change he would have bombed the US

Originally Posted by blitz

If any one on here is interested google Che can't spell his last name quote about this.

While I'm not big on the yanks if he was in change he would have bombed the US

I think that it was when USA try to invade Cuba by the Bay of Pigs in August 1961.
USA lost that battle so at the end the Guevara plan was abandoned.

Originally Posted by Chucaro

I think that it was when USA try to invade Cuba by the Bay of Pigs in August 1961.
USA lost that battle so at the end the Guevara plan was abandoned.

If memory serves me correctly (I was around at the time) the Bay of Pigs invasion was not carried out by U.S. forces but by CIA trained Cuban exiles. I think if the Yanks had gone in with their own forces, WW3 would definitely have erupted!!

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion"]Bay of Pigs Invasion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Originally Posted by Ausfree

If memory serves me correctly (I was around at the time) the Bay of Pigs invasion was not carried out by U.S. forces but by CIA trained Cuban exiles. I think if the Yanks had gone in with their own forces, WW3 would definitely have erupted!!

Bay of Pigs Invasion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well that was a "technicality" with political purposes because both Colonels working for the CIA were active, one working for the marines and the other for the air force. The CIA did not acted alone in March 17 1960 Eisenhower approved a covert plan of action against Cuba.
The true was that D. Eisenhower planned it, Robert F. Kennedy championed it and John F. Kennedy approved it
Also remember that the USA air force used their planes for reconnaissance and the navy have several destroyers near Guantanamo to lunch the attack on that coast which was delayed when realized that the Cuban militia was all along the coast. Four American pilots were killed in battle and there were not a CIA planes!
If back then USA invaded Cuba to win the war they need to wipe of the entire population.
Even now there are arms in storage in almost every suburbia in all the cities and at very short notice the people will be in condition to defend their country.

Originally Posted by Chucaro

Well that was a "technicality" with political purposes because both Colonels working for the CIA were active, one working for the marines and the other for the air force. The CIA did not acted alone in March 17 1960 Eisenhower approved a covert plan of action against Cuba.
The true was that D. Eisenhower planned it, Robert F. Kennedy championed it and John F. Kennedy approved it
Also remember that the USA air force used their planes for reconnaissance and the navy have several destroyers near Guantanamo to lunch the attack on that coast which was delayed when realized that the Cuban militia was all along the coast. Four American pilots were killed in battle and there were not a CIA planes!
If back then USA invaded Cuba to win the war they need to wipe of the entire population.
Even now there are arms in storage in almost every suburbia in all the cities and at very short notice the people will be in condition to defend their country.

Yep, I agree it is hair splitting it was a sneaky plan thought up by the CIA and the Higher Up's in America to avoid a direct confrontation with the Soviet Union. I remember the news reports regarding American planes overflying Cuba but the fact remains American troops did not invade. The whole debacle was a CIA backed exercise. To show how close the American involvement was, I believe the Cuban exiles were even transported on US naval ships. Yes, hair splitting it is!!