Photos The Cold War

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GIs of the Berlin Brigade receive familiarisation training with Soviet equipment.

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took from israel from jew-arab war?
bmp very little cabin for passenger!

 

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I don't think that at that stage the girls and boys were not too serious about attacking Cuba......so long term logistics were not really all that important.

Coulda, woulda, shoulda wannabe's methinks

 

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Coulda, woulda, shoulda wannabe's methinks

Exactly, maybe in the beginning, just after the Bay of Pigs, they were serious. But when theses pics were taken it seems to have been more about nude snail hunting etc.....

 

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RN:
Sailors undergoing sub escape training, 1965

 

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Two members of the U.S. Military Liaison Mission (USMLM) during an intelligence collection exercise, late 1980s. From 1947 to 1990 USMLM gathered intelligence on Soviet forces and their equipment in East Germany, playing an invaluable role in the Cold War

 

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The cold war UK spy novelist John le Carre dead at 89,
RIP.

 

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Italy:
From left to right the frigate Luigi Rizzo (F 596), the destroyer Indomito (D 559), the cruiser Caio Duilio (D 554) the destroyer Intrepido (D 571), and a Bergamini-class frigate, early 1970's

 

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Finland:
A Conscript from Nyland Brigade during an exercise, 1968 Photo by Puolustusvoimat

October 4th, 1962. Troops with a 55 S 55 recoilless anti-tank weapon

 

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USS Saratoga CV-60 off of Guantanamo Bay Cuba in 1962
LIFE Magazine Archives - John Dominis Photographer

 

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The Kondensator, a Soviet 406mm self-propelled gun capable of firing nuclear shells, 1957. Only 4 were made

 

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Merry Christmas from Guantanamo Bay Naval Base Cuba - December 1962
LIFE Magazine Archives - John Dominis Photographer

 

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Iwo Jima, Japan. 5 May 1982. USMC LVTP-7 tracked landing vehicles line the beach at the foot of Mount Suribachi during a 31st Marine Amphibious Unit exercise. Photo by Corporal D. C. Davis USMC.

 

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Soviet Santa

 

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Somewhere in Canada, the war was really cold