[Dumpster Baby]

This kind of stuff really happened. My late father was out with the fleet in the late 1950’s, and many years later he told me of seeing a Russian Bear recon plane buzz the fleet. A few minutes later there was a column of smoke on the horizon when Navy planes shot the Bear down. This was in retaliation for some Soviet shootdown of an American plane somewhere.

[hoosierham]

I believe the Russians had shot down an American recon'intel aircraft in the Turkish border area.

People don't realize few wars have a neat beginning and ending.There are incidents and confrontations,even pitched battles before and often after the official dates.Neither the Us nor the USSR wanted a full scale nuclear exchange but that didn't mean lots of intimidation didn't happen.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This happened a lot in the 1950s. The Cold War was still hot in those days.

[FreedomPoster]

>This kind of stuff really happened.

There are a number of incidents here.

CASUALTIES OF THE COLD WAR
http://www.3ad.org/coldwar/coldwar_casualties.htm