Wings of denial
Subtitle: the Alabama Air National Guard's covert role at the Bay of Pigs
By: Warren Trest and Don Dodd.
Contributors: Dodd, Don.
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Montgomery, AL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Alabama. Air National Guard; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Cuba -- History -- Invasion, 1961 -- Aerial operations
Description: "After nearly four decades of government denial, the deeds of four Alabama Air National Guardsmen who died at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 have been made public and their names memorialized at the CIA?s Wall of Honor in Langley, Virginia. Their stories can now be told. The four guardsmen who died flew with a group of Alabama volunteers to secret CIA bases in Guatemala and Nicaragua to train Cuban exiles to fly B-26 bombers in support of the invasion forces. When the small group of exhausted pilots could no longer sustain the air battle, seven Alabama Guardsmen flew with them into combat on the final day of the invasion in a futile attempt to stave off defeat at the embattled beachhead." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.