United States Military Air Transport Service aircraft lands in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba during timeframe of Cuban Missile Crisis. United States soldiers step down plane with their baggage. Soldiers gather at runway. Hangar named Leeward Point Field seen. View of air traffic controllers in tower, looking out over airfield.
A United States Military Air Transport Service C-124 aircraft lands at Leeward Point Field in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. United States Marines get out of the airplane. Groups of soldiers on the airfield grounds. Brigadier General W R Collins addresses Marines. Soldiers board trucks. Marines board ferry boats. Marines get off boat.
View of a street with hurricane shelters. A blue car driving. Marines walking on the street with hurricane shelters and various parked vehicles. Hurricane shelters are used as barracks by the marines. Vehicles such as jeeps, trucks, carryalls are parked in street; marine walks toward camera, in FG, moving out of scene to right. Other marines working in front of hurricane shelters. View of the United States Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), with the Sierra Maestra mountains in the background. Marine tents up on golf course of the naval station. Marines having packages wrapped outside the Navy Exchange store. A woman manning the table stands up. Two women manning the table attend to the package. View of the main entrance to the Navy Exchange. A Cuban man coming out of the Naval Exchange shop. Sign above doorway reads "BIG NAVY EXCHANGE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA". Marines going in and out of main entrance, with a Jeep parked in foreground.
U.S. Navy Edsall class destroyer escort USS Peterson (DE-152) is seen nested alongside USS Purvis (DD-709), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, on the port of the United States Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Cuba. United States sailors (shirtless) over the side are seen painting a ship at the pier. View of the pier. Two sailors in small punt painting water line off port bow of USS Purvis. Sailors painting up on weather dock aboard the USS Purvis. Both USS Peterson and USS Purvis are docked at the pier of the naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Sailors perform various routine work aboard ships.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agrees to dismantle Soviet missiles in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. U.S. battleships at U.S. Navy Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. A U.S. Navy band plays. A sign reads 'Hi Honey Dinner's Defrostin' Navy personnel greet their family members who were evacuated during the crisis as they disembark from ships. Americans entering a small church to attend services. Reconnaissance photos show dismantled missiles. Soviet ships carry missiles out of Cuba. Americans walk along streets in the United States.
Recreational activities: United States Marines play volleyball at United States Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (GTMO). Distant view, shirtless Marines playing horseshoes. Olive green tents nearby.