Major <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Anderson" id="mwmQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rudolf Anderson">Rudolf Anderson</a> of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" id="mwmg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cuban Missile Crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a> when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.