From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 83
Image Count:
1
Description:
The principal figure is Cdte. Rene de los Santos, whose command post was above Santiago. Frames 31-33 show the roadblock of Cdte. de los Santos' post on one of the seaside back roads leading toward Siboney and Santiago. Frames 5-7 show a typical puest...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 84
Image Count:
1
Description:
Glimpses of two rebel command posts - small, temporary ones - on the approaches to La Plata, Fidel Castro's headquarters. Frames 4-12 show the station (and bomb shop) of Cdte. Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo at Naranjo. Cdte. Crespo is shown on frame 4 et se...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 85
Image Count:
1
Description:
This is the bomb shop at Cdte. Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo's station (shown on Print 14). Frames in bottom row show welder cutting up bomb shells to make casings for small rebel bombs. The bomb shells are, of course, the remnants of aerial bombs dropped ...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 86
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 11-33 show Cdte. Raul Chibas touring the perimeters of the rebel-controlled area in the Maffo-Matias-Bijagual-El Corojo-San Pablo de Yao area, looking for potential defectors from government forces. Frames 5-10 show the peloton of Capt. Henriqu...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 88
Image Count:
1
Description:
A potpourri of scenes of "behind rebel lines" daily life in the Santiago-Bayam zone. Frames 4-6 show Lt. Vilo Acuha testing homemade rifle-grenade launcher. (Acuha, then a Dcte., died with Che Guevara in Bolivia.) Frames 14-22 show a typical behind-th...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 89
Image Count:
1
Description:
Cdte. Juan Almeida Bosque, shown here in Frame 23 (Negro officer with beard and sombrero). In Frame 18, et seq. he is shown interrogating a very fat young woman (Frame 19) suspected of being a government informer. Frame 9: group of rebel radio and adm...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 90
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames (4-9) show Melba Hernandez running rebel administrative office set up in abandoned store near Siboney. Frames 10-11: Cdte. Raul Chibas. Frames 22-30: Cdte. Juan Almeida Bosque, the column commander of this zone (slim, hatless Negro officer)...
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 91
Image Count:
1
Description:
On the top frames, Cdte. Almeida Bosque and his staff try - and fail - to cross the swollen Yao river in their command jeep. Frames 6-9 show Cdte. Almeida Bosque in front seat of another vehicle. Frames 1-5 show Cdte. Almeida Bosque's wireless station...
