USS MULLINNIX DD-944

 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis 

Left to right: ARV Zulia D-21, USS Mullinnix DD-944, ARA Rosales D-22 (ex-USS Stembel DD-644),
ARA Espora D-21 (ex-USS Dortch DD-670), ARV Nuera Esparta D-11

Pictured above are the warships of the U.S., Argentine, and Venezuelan Navies leave Trinidad
on the combined Latin American-United States Quarantine Task Force, 12 Nov, 1962.



Note: After so many years, some of these pictures of the "Straits" and the "Canal" have fogged-together... Make sense?
If so, can you help determine which is which?

	Mullinnix and USS Lester in San Juan during Cuban Missile Crisis - Nov 1962.		Mullinnix with USS Picuda SS382 and USS Lester in Belgrano Argentina (possibly Biahn Blanca, Urugary instead) on 29 Sept 1962 during Cuban Missile Crisis.
	Shellback ceremony on 28 August 1962. Courtesy Bill Lango		Crossing the line ceremony on 28 August 1962. Courtesy Bill Lango
	Shellback ceremony on 28 August 1962. Courtesy Bill Lango		Know All Ye By these Presents: and to all Landlubbers, Sea Lawyers, Salts, Swabs, Square Knot Admirals, Gold Brickers, and other Scavengers of the Seven Sea, Greetings:
	Mullinnix going through Straits of Magellan. Courtesy Bill Lango		Mullinnix going through Straits of Magellan. Courtesy Bill Lango
	Mullinnix going through Straits of Magellan. Courtesy Bill Lango		Mullinnix going through Straits of Magellan. Courtesy Bill Lango
	Mullinnix in Brazil. Courtesy Bill Lango		Mullinnix in Panama Canal. Courtesy Bill Lango
	Shellback Ceremony. Courtesy Bill Lango		Mullinnix in Panama Canal. Courtesy Bill Lango

	USS Kennedy shadowing Soviet Ship - 26 Nov 1962.		Crates on board Soviet Ship with Patrol Boats superimposed.
	Soviet Ship Grozny 27 Oct 1962.		Soviet Ship Poltava turning back to Moscow carrying IRBM Missiles.
	Soviet Sub 28 Oct 1962.		Soviet Ship Kasimov w/ IL-28 Bomber Fuselages 28 Sept 1962.
	Soviet Ship Poltav 15 Sept 1962.		Soviet Sub 25 Oct 1962.
	Crates contain Komar Guide Missile Patrol Boats - Sept 1962.
	USS Joseph P Kennedy DD850 1962.		USS Biddle DDG5 (pre-USS Claude V. Ricketts DDG 5 (Charles F. Adams)) 1962.
	Soviet Ships 1962.		USS John R Pierce DD753 1962.
	Cuban Missile Sites 1962.		Soviet Ships 1962.
	USS Shangri La CVS-38. Cuban Missile Crisis 1962.		Soviet Ship Okhotsk - Cuban Missile Crisis 1962.
	USS Canberra CAG-2 - Cuban Missile Crisis 1962.		USS Enterprise CVAN-65 - Cuban Missile Crisis 1962.
	USS Joseph P Kennedy Jr DD-850 - Cuban Missile Crisis 1962.		USS Newport News CA-148 - Cuban Missile Crisis 1962.
	USS Saratoga CVA-60 - Cuban Missile Crisis 1962.		Families Book Flights Back to Gitmo - Cuban Missile Crisis 1962.

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