Of cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a Nuclear Strike capability against the western hemisphere. The cuban missile crisis took place over an extremely tense 13 days in october of 1962. Only one combat fatality of this Huge International crisis. Fromwas Rudolph Anderson greenville. It began when the United States military began observing maritime shipments into cuba from the soviet union and we began flying missions in the u2 aircraft over cuba that were secret. ,hey were strategic highaltitude reconnaissance missions. We were snapping photographs of what was going on in cuba. It soon became apparent that the soviet union was developing mediumrange Ballistic Missiles and intermediate range Ballistic Missile sites in cuba. Kennedy informed the nation on a r 22 from the oval office on october 22 from