[AnAmericanMother]

I'm about 10 years younger than you - I do remember during the Cuban Missile Crisis, my dad and all his buddies (ex-GIs and NG and Reserve, WWII and Korea) fanned out across Atlanta and basically bought up every round of loaded ammo, every bullet, every can of powder, and every primer in the city. They also cleaned out the reloading equipment.

Dad said it took months for the supply to get back to normal. But if the Commies had landed in Savannah, we were ready!

[yarddog]

My Brother-in-Law was flying Neptunes during that time. They would fly right over the Soviet ships taking photos, I think he said about 20 feet over their highest part. He said some would throw stuff at them and some would wave.

My other Sister was working as a clek/typist at Hurlburt Field. There were Cubans everywhere and bunches of B-26’s, each one with 8 fifty calibers in the nose. Of course they were not very effective against Cuban/Russian MIG or whatever they were, jets.