On the front lines of Cuban missile crisis

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By David Hendee

Click here for an October 1962 timeline.

The long night.

It paled in comparison with the bloody Battle of Bunker Hill during the Korean War a decade earlier.

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Cpl. Harley Carr of Nebraska was hurriedly deployed to Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba in October 1962.


It was nothing like the siege of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War six years in the future.

But for about eight hours one October night in 1962, a young Marine from Nebraska on a jungle hillside in Cuba wondered what would come with the dawn.

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