La Coubre explosion sold to a shipping company in Cyprus and renamed "Barbara". Alberto Korda took photos at the memorial service for victims of the "La Coubre" explosion, including "Guerrillero Heroico", which has become an iconic image of Che Guevara. La Coubre explosion The French freighter La Coubre () exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, on 4 March 1960 while it was unloading 76 tons of munitions. Casualties may have been as high as 100, and many more were injured. Fidel Castro charged it was an act of sabotage on the part of the United States, which denied any involvement. Unloading explosive
Rade Korda some sources, Korda received the rank of Chetnik voivode. In April 1942, the Muslim militia from Bijelo Polje repeatedly attacked forces under Korda; he did not respond to the attacks, in accordance with an order from Major Glišić in Raška (under whose command he was at the time). According to some Yugoslav postwar sources, Korda was not fully under Chetnik control because he fought against Balli Kombetar, Sandžak Muslim militia, partisans and the Chetniks. He controlled several small villages from a headquarters in a cave near a hilltop. Some sources say that Korda opposed to Chetniks' anticommunist policy, and Axis