The Cuban Revolution against Batista in years 1957-1958. A Cuban Revolutionary writes a note to be taken across by Fidel Castro's courier. A soldier watches as a courier gets onto a horse and rides away. Refuge area for the rebels in the Sierra Maestra Mountains. A professional Communist from Argentina, Ernesto Che Guevara, joins Fidel Castro's men. He rides a horse as he smokes a cigarette and talks to another man. Soldiers clean and prepare arms and ammunition, they make bombs. Castro's rebels bomb buses and railroad trains. Charred cars and trucks. Buildings on fire from rebel guerrilla strikes. Oil tanks and factories set on fire by them. Black smoke arises from fires as firefighters try to put out fires. Men on horses cross a stream as they bring supplies. Castro talks to new recruits and pro-communists. Celia Sanchez, who was part of the Moncada Barracks attack, talks to a rebel. Che Guevara smokes a cigar as he inspects rockets. Soldiers ready the rocket. Soldiers sit and talk, climb uphill on foot and on horses. Soldiers inside a dimly lit camp. The rebels attack and fire. A rebel doctor operates upon a soldier in a make shift operating room. The rebels attack and fight police and Cuban military forces loyal to Batista. Soldiers fire in standing and prone positions. Soldiers walk down a path in the jungle. They gather around a man seated on the ground as he takes notes. Women rebels take pictures of prisoners for publicity purposes. A rebel with a camera. 1958: Batista's men search for Castro. Soldiers walk uphill and cross a stream. A soldier in a deserted village. People near wrecked buildings and houses. A woman soldier speaks into a microphone for the rebel radio. A man adjusts the knob of a portable transistor radio.
DesRon 2 ASW (anti-submarine warfare) "hunter killer" exercises of the USS Wallace L Lind (DD-703) and USS Charles P Cecil, (DD-835) underway in Guantanamo Bay. SH-3A helicopters in flight above water. Helicopter dips sonar in water. An S-2E Med Evac is seen in flight, flying toward signal flare in the water with its mad boom extended.
DesRon 2 ASW (anti-submarine warfare) "hunter killer" exercises of the USS Wallace L Lind (DD-703) and USS Charles P Cecil, (DD-835) underway in Guantanamo Bay. SH-3A helicopter hovering above water, dipping sonar. An S-2E aircraft flies by with boom extended. Views of the two destroyers from afar and up close toward their port and stern. The S-2E flies low overhead.
SH-3A helicopter flying above Guantanamo Bay surface during DesRon2 ASW (anti-submarine warfare) hunter-killer exercises in the Atlantic Ocean. A U.S. Naval Destroyer, likely either the USS Wallace L Lind (DD-703) or the USS Charles P Cecil, (DD-835) underway. An S-2E aircraft is seen in flight, flying low over the ocean surface with mad boom extended. It drops a torpedo which splashes into the water. Signal flare seen burning on water, with smoke rising upward.
Overlooking helicopter deck at USS Wallace L Lind (DD-703) underway in Guantanamo Bay during DesRon 2 ASW (anti-submarine warfare) exercises. Winch seen in the background. SH-3A helicopter in flight far off port quarter. Curved wake of USS Lind. Part of helicopter deck in the foreground. S-2E aircraft on fly-by with MAD boom extended past USS Lind. It flies towards flare burning on water. SH-3A hovers in the background while dipping sonar. S-2E making approach low over water on fly-by, MAD boom extended.
USS Charles P Cecil (DD-835) underway in Guantanamo Bay during ASW (anti-submarine) exercises as part of U.S. Navy Destroyer Squadron 2. SH-3A helicopter hovers above water surface and dips sonar. USS Charles Cecil underway. Another SH-3A in the background. USS Charles Cecil exposes port beam. SH-3As in flight over water. SH-3A picks up port beam of USS Charles Cecil. SH-3A hovers over water. SH-3As dip sonar. Port beam view of USS Charles Cecil. S-2E in flight far off bow. SH-3As hover. S-2E flies by in the background. S-2E in flight over water. SH-3As dip sonar. S-2E flies by in the mid background. Wake and aft deck of Destroyer USS Wallace Lind (DD-703), also part of Destroyer Squadron 2. SH-3A flies over wake in the background.