U-2 Photos Reveal Soviet Missiles in Cuba
A mistaken U-2 overflight of Soviet Sakhalin and a lost Taiwanese spy plane forced the US to ground reconnaissance flights over Cuba for five weeks. This "Photo Gap" allowed Soviet SS-4 missiles to arrive and begin construction undetected until Major Richard Heyser finally captured images on October 14, confirming the Cuban Missile Crisis was underway.
October 14, 1962
64 years ago
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