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U.S. reconnaissance photograph of soviet missile sites on Cuba, taken from a RF-101 Voodoo spy plane following the Cuban missile crisis.

Credit: John F. Kennedy Library.

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• (del) (cur) 22:21, 9 December 2005 . . Fastfission ( Talk | contribs) . . 1147×1160 (615,145 bytes) (full res version, from link already given)
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