On 15 April 1961, crewed by Cuban exiles, eight B-26s of the Fuerza Aérea de Liberación (FAL) attacked three Cuban airfields to destroy FAR combat aircraft on the ground. On 17 April …

Two days earlier, eight CIA-supplied B-26 bombers had attacked Cuban airfields and then returned to the U.S. On the night of 17 April, the main invasion force landed on the beach at …

Thomas Willard “Pete” Ray and Leo Francis Baker were killed by Cuban militiamen on April 19, 1961, after surviving the crash of their B-26 bomber on a beach near Cuba’s Bay of Pigs. …

"Shot down by AAA over Cuba while bombing during invasion. US pilot Leo Francis Bell died**. Corrections or additions? ... Edit this accident description.

Jul 29, 2011 · Flaquer, a Bay of Pigs veteran, stands under the wing of a B26 bomber that serves as a memorial to the pilots who flew during the ill-fated CIA sponsored invasion.

May 30, 2017 · In yet another notion that went afoul, a Cuban “defector” landed his B-26 in Miami, part of a contrived cover story that the air strikes were the work of disaffected pilots from …

ers shot down by Cuban fighters during the Bay of Pigs invasion. The aircraft, purchased by the CIA from USAF surplus, were similar to Cuban B-26s. It was a half-baked military operation …

Feb 12, 2021 · During the mid-1960s civil war in the Congo, a Douglas B-26K Counter Invader wearing the flag of the Republic of the Congo, but operated by the CIA and crewed by anti …

On April 15, 1961, eight B-26 bombers took off from Nicaragua and bombed Cuban military aircraft on the ground, hoping to wipe out Castro’s air force before the planned invasion at …

On 15 April 1961, eight B-26B Invader bombers of the Fuerza Aérea de Liberación (FAL) (Liberation Air Force) of Brigade 2506 simultaneously attacked three Cuban airfields: the San …