And the Russians Stayed: The Sovietization of Cuba : a Personal PortraitThis personal account of the author and members of his family spans thirty years, from January 1, 1959, up until the present day where the Soviets continue to use fortified coves to keep their missiles only 90 miles from America's shores. Photos. |
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Page 52
Several pilots flying a Cessna 99 , a Beechcraft , and a Lockheed PB - 2 Lodestar repeatedly took off from an abandoned airfield in Florida to transport arms to Castro in the Sierra Maestra . More than twenty such missions were ...
Several pilots flying a Cessna 99 , a Beechcraft , and a Lockheed PB - 2 Lodestar repeatedly took off from an abandoned airfield in Florida to transport arms to Castro in the Sierra Maestra . More than twenty such missions were ...
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My great - grandfather Néstor Leonelo Carbonell was one of the first to respond to the call to arms . Through him and others who survived the ordeal we learned of many an epic poem written with blazing machetes by the Cuban legionnaires ...
My great - grandfather Néstor Leonelo Carbonell was one of the first to respond to the call to arms . Through him and others who survived the ordeal we learned of many an epic poem written with blazing machetes by the Cuban legionnaires ...
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The rifles found in the arms cache on the Venezuelan beach had been purchased by Comandante Ricardo Lorié back in Feb- ruary 1959 under Castro's personal instructions . Lorié signed a contract with the Belgian National Arms Factory ...
The rifles found in the arms cache on the Venezuelan beach had been purchased by Comandante Ricardo Lorié back in Feb- ruary 1959 under Castro's personal instructions . Lorié signed a contract with the Belgian National Arms Factory ...
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| Title | And the Russians Stayed: The Sovietization of Cuba : a Personal Portrait |
| Authors | Néstor T. Carbonell, Néstor Carbonell Cortina |
| Publisher | Morrow, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 3 Apr 2008 |
| ISBN | 0688072135, 9780688072131 |
| Length | 384 pages |
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