Quote Originally Posted by Barnacle Bill View Post
For you history buffs the title of this thread is also the title of a new book just released. It is a docmentary of the 13 days of the Cuban crisis. Even tho I was directly involved I never realized just how much of a crisis it really was. We really did come mightly close to WW-III during that time. Operation Blue Moon was the code name given to the operations to obtain very low level photography of the missile sites being built in Cuba. The book is authored by my former skipper deceased Captain William B. Ecker USN (ret.) and co-authored by a former shipmate of mine Kenneth Jack. If you are into history or not it really is great reading.

This book really hit close to home for me. I was sent to Key West for the duration and my job (along with a few others) was to make sure all 6 cameras in the planes had full loads of film and were working properly. It was really pretty much routine as we were not told what was really going on and where the planes were going. After reading this book all I can say is "HOLY S#@#!!!!!"
BB,
My wife's brother was deployed during the crisis and no one in the family knew where he was until it was over. He was a camera tech in the Air Force stationed out of Shaw AFB in SC. His name was Archie Williams, we lost him to cancer a couple of years after the retired from the AF. Any of you that were there happen to run into him?? He was one heck of a fisherman. He fished the upper Santee Cooper Lakes and knew the swamps like a water snake.
SeaRay