50 Years Ago Today – As Cuban Situation Heats Up, Mullinnix Transits the English Narrows
Excerpt from “The Last Gun Ship - History of USS Mullinnix DD-944” - A Historical Novel By Frank A. Wood
9 October: USS Oxford AG-159, fitted with listening devices, patrolled the Cuban zone in order to intercept radio communications, detected the presence of air traffic controllers speaking Spanish with strong Slavic accents.
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Morning 10 October: Mullinnix stationed the Special Sea and Anchor details for transiting the English Narrows. At 0958 she fired a 1 round from saluting gun as signal prior to entry into the narrows. Averaging 12 knots, she completed the transit at 1025.
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10 October: CIA receives Navy photographs taken of the Soviet ship “Kasmimov” off Cuba, showing clearly identifiable IL-28 crates (which later show up in U-2 photography of 17 October at San Julian airfield).
11 October: Atlantic Fleet Command deploys the attack aircraft carrier USS Independence CV-62 with the aircraft of Air Wing 7 aboard from Norfolk with destroyers USS English DD-696, USS Hank DD-792, USS O'Hare DD-889, and Corry DD-817 as escorts.
To be continued... Woody
9 October: USS Oxford AG-159, fitted with listening devices, patrolled the Cuban zone in order to intercept radio communications, detected the presence of air traffic controllers speaking Spanish with strong Slavic accents.
Morning 10 October: Mullinnix stationed the Special Sea and Anchor details for transiting the English Narrows. At 0958 she fired a 1 round from saluting gun as signal prior to entry into the narrows. Averaging 12 knots, she completed the transit at 1025.
10 October: CIA receives Navy photographs taken of the Soviet ship “Kasmimov” off Cuba, showing clearly identifiable IL-28 crates (which later show up in U-2 photography of 17 October at San Julian airfield).
11 October: Atlantic Fleet Command deploys the attack aircraft carrier USS Independence CV-62 with the aircraft of Air Wing 7 aboard from Norfolk with destroyers USS English DD-696, USS Hank DD-792, USS O'Hare DD-889, and Corry DD-817 as escorts.
To be continued... Woody
posted by Frank A. Wood at 10:44
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