Tanker Takes Water To Guantanamo When Castro Restricts Supply To Us Base (1964)

Newsfragment from 1964.

Premier Castro has shut down the water supply for the US Navy base in Guantanamo Bay in reprisal for the arrest of Cuban fishermen in U.S waters. And now, by clearing civilians from a five mile deep area around the U.S. base. John Bulkely, the grand commander of the base, calls it the German wall. The impact of the water shortage is reflected everywhere on the base.

More info: British Pathé
Produced by: British Pathé
Language: English
Year: 1964
Region: Guantanamo, Cuba

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