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DescriptionCuban missiles.jpg	English: U.S. aerial reconnaissance photograph of a medium range ballistic missile launch site at San Cristobal in Cuba, on 1 November 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis. Magyar: Egy amerikai Lockheed U-2 kémrepülõ által készített fénykép a kubai telepítésû szovjet atomrakétákról.
Date	1 November 1962
Source	National Archives.gov
Author	see above

Credit: U.S. Department of Defense and John F. Kennedy Presidential Library

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	10:36, 19 April 2013	1,160 × 1,121 (635 KB)	DieBuche	Sharper, not rotated
	10:04, 28 February 2009	1,147 × 1,160 (601 KB)	Luk	full version
	21:44, 30 November 2005	800 × 809 (178 KB)	Tristes tigres~commonswiki	U.S. reconnaissance photograph of soviet missile sites on Cuba, taken from a Lockheed U-2 spy plane following the Cuban missile crisis. Credit: [[John Fitzgerald Kennedy Li

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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