Photo #: NH 105694
Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Sign erected on 18 February 1964 proclaims the base's liberation
from the Cuban Government water supply system, severed on 17
February after Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley ordered the pipes
to the cut and sealed. This was done in retaliation after Fidel
Castro accused the Guantanamo Base of "stealing" water
from the Yateras Water Plant. The Cuban Government stopped supplying
water to the base on 6 February, and water was then sent in by
ship from the United States until completion of a desalinization
plant in July 1966.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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