Title: Wings of denial
First published: 2001
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.
Subjects: Aerial operations, Alabama, Alabama. Air National Guard, History, United States, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Cuba, history, invasion, 1961, United states, national guard
Places: Cuba
Time periods: Invasion, 1961
LC classification: F1788 .T74 2001