A total failure. Many of the men of Brigade 2506 believed fervently that they are the first wave of Cuban freedom fighters who would liberate their homeland from Castro had to. They were convinced when they land they storrned, that would be supported overhead by some of the best fighter pilots of the U.S. Air Force, and the fact that they moved into Cuba, the U.S. Marines Want em right behind his thinking. Whether the insurgents had talked to this conviction or the trainers made from the United States had promised that such is still a subject of debate. The Promised air support by the CIA consisted of sixteen B-26 twin-engined light attack bomber. From an airstrip in Nicaragua to the Bay of Pigs was a journey of 1,000 miles, round trip, a B-26 with enough fuel remaining to less than 40 minutes of air support for the brigade bidding. All together over forty minutes and the pilots risked leakage of gas somewhere over the Caribbean. On 14 April 1961, just three days before the invasion, Kennedy called to ask CIA Operations Chief Bissell set how many aircraft ET planned to use in the operation. Bissell told the president the CIA planned to use all sixteen of their B-26s. "Well, I do not want it is the scale," said Kennedy. "I want it minimal." Sun Bissell, the number of aircraft for the invasion cut to eight. The next day, the eight planes attacked the three airfields of the Cuban air force, knocking out some of the planes, but not enough to cripple the fleet. On the morning of the 17th April, noted as the Cuban militia, the men of Brigade 2506 had attacked the Cuban planes that survived the air raids of the exiles from the air. Meanwhile, the B-26s, low fuel consumption and Their 40 minutes, turned away from the beach for the flight home. The brigade's control, San Román, radioed to help his CIA handlers. "We are under attack by two Sea Fury aircraft and heavy artillery," said ET. "You do not see any friendly air cover as you promised. Need jet support immediately." When San Roman request was denied, ET said: "You, sir, are a son of a bitch." With the sea in the back, it means no clustering of retreat, and no chance to continue in the interior of Cuba, the Brigade was in a desperate situation. Back in Washington, joined the CIA and the Kennedy administration that the invasion would fail. In a conversation with his brother Robert Kennedy, the president said he had the use of U-boats Wished U.S. Said permitted to back up the Cuban exiles. "I'd rather be a year aggressor," he said, "than a bum." On 18 April Authorized Kennedy six fighter jets from the aircraft carrier Essex to one hour air support for the CIAs attacking B-26s over the beach at the Bay of Pigs bidding. Order of the jets from the Essex and the B-26s missed their rendezvous because the Pentagon forgot to factor in the one-hour difference in time zones between the B-26s' base in Nicaragua and the beach in Cuba. The same day, Kennedy's National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy, the President a report on the invasion. "The Cuban army had are stronger, the popular response [is] weaker, and our tactical position is weak as we hoped," Bundy said. This may perhaps, was the description of the Bay of Pigs operation Kindest. As a humanitarian concession allows the President on U.S. destroyers to approach the Cuban coast to pick up survivors. Were the ships autorisée to get two miles from shore after dark, not an end closer than five miles during daylight hours. The directive meant the rescue mission was beyond the reach of almost everyone 2506th Brigade were a handful of successful people, on the one or other remote islands of the bay swim HAD picked up, drank the rest were dead or lying on the beach by Castro's forces Captured. At 02:00 on 19 April after two days of being from the militia, tanks, and the Cuban air force commander Pounded San Román and Brigade was 2506th "All is lost," Allen Dulles Told shape Vice President Richard Nixon. "The Cuban invasion is a total failure." Sixty-eight Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs debacle, were killed, 1209 were captured, and nine of 'em smothered in a windowless sealed truck that they were from the beach to prison in Havana Took After twenty days of interrogation, the prisoners. Given condemned the show trials and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Soon after the conviction of the men of Brigade 2506 Castro made a public offer to exchange the prisoners for farm machinery. Kennedy jumped into the proposal. Formed immediately ET tractors for Freedom, chaired by the formation of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to acquire for the purpose of raising funds for equipment for Cuba. The aim of the group was unable to Castro's claim of over $ 30,000,000 worth of capital relief meeting, and it disbanded. The tractor through a lot of fur. Negotiations between the two governments Went on sporadically over the next 20 months. Finally, on December 24.1962, announced that he is the Brigade 2506 prisoners of Castro in exchange for the release of $ 53 million in medicine and food from the United States. So et Promised "as a Christmas bonus," to allow the prisoners to emigrate in 1000 in relation to the United States. The hostility between Cuba and the United States intensified after the Bay of Pigs debacle. Cuba allied itself with the Soviet Union, while America continued policy of isolating Cuba economically STI and diplomatically. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev viewed America's failure in the Bay of Pigs as a sign of Kennedy's weakness and inexperience of the assessment ET felt What confmned Following a meeting with Kennedy at the Vienna Summit of April 1962, when it appeared to agree that Kennedy from Khrushchev threat was cut off with sandbags West Berlin by the Western powers. Within six months, Khrushchev was placing nuclear missiles in Cuba, what, an action that brought the world as close as ever, all come out of nuclear energy. In the face of the missile crisis, Kennedy held firmly. The Soviets backed down, removing nuclear weapons from Cuba, the purpose of tension between Cuba and the United States for more than forty years drawn. That Time During, political observers and historians have failed invasion actually strengthened Castro's grip The Arguedas, Cuba. Certainly Che Guevara I thought so. In August 1961, at a meeting of the Organization of American States in Uruguay, he feels a note to Kennedy saying, "Thank you for Playa Giron [another name for the location of the invasion] weak before the invasion of the revolution Now it is stronger.. than ever, "The above is an excerpt from the book of the president's failures;. From The Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 in the Bay of Pigs and war in Iraq by Thomas J. Craughwell with M. William Phelps Published by Fair Winds, September 2008, $ 19.95US / $ 21.95CAN; 978-1-59233-299-1 Copyright © 2008 Thomas J. Craughwell
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