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Re: It was/is my birthday. (11-22-43) I was in the US Navy, in the Bay Of Florida, and we were salvaging a U2 plane that had been shot down by Castro. We were all worried that a nuclear exchange with the Soviets was coming.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft_%281960%E2%80%9374%29:

20 November [1963]
Tenth Lockheed U-2A, Article 350, 56-6683, delivered to the CIA on 24 April 1956, converted to U-2F by spring 1963; loaned to SAC for Cuba overflight missions, crashes into the Gulf of Mexico 40 miles (64 km) NW of Key West, Florida, killing pilot Capt. Joe Hyde, Jr. Pilot was returning from a Brass Knob mission and was hand-flying the aircraft back to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, at 69,000 feet (21,000 m) after failure of autopilot when it entered a flat spin and impacted in the Gulf. Wreckage retrieved from shallow water near Florida coast but ejection seat, seat pack and parachute missing - pilot never found.[118]

Assume above the one but they don't mention Castro shooting it down. Says 'failure of autopilot' to fault.

but ejection seat, seat pack and parachute missing - pilot never found.

Beamed out by a UFO from Bermuda Triangle?

"Assume above the one but they don't mention Castro shooting it down. Says 'failure of autopilot' to fault. "

Yup. We never found the pilot, the seat or anything like that.