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One of the original USN images above from the NARA photos online of one of the Soviet Foxtrot submarines the USN forced to the surface during the Cubian Missile Crisis of October 1962. Sub ID in text of NARA web files.
Check out the National Archive Records on USN ASW and Soviet Submarine Encounters During the Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962. Foxtrot Soviet submarines being forced to the surface, crews and batteries pushed hard to exhaustion, while all unbeknownst to the US Navy, these Foxtrot submarines were armed with nuclear torpedoes. Read some of the reports, amazing. Read what one Soviet Captain did to make his 'political officer' faint! LOL!
On both sides coolness, naval professionalism, and luck. Study the ASW charts. Should be written up into a novel. Fasinating!
Steve Reichmuth
The Submarines of October
National Archives Records of USN ASW and Soviet Submarine Operations during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962.
U.S. and Soviet Naval Encounters During the Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962.
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 75
William Burr and Thomas S. Blanton, editors
October 31, 2002
Contents:
I. Soviet Plans to Deploy Submarines
II. Cables, reports, deck logs, and after-action reports on U.S. ASW operations
III. Charts
IV. Photographs
V. Chronology of Submarine Contacts During the Cuban Missile Crisis
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB75/#IV