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Fidel Castro

The Bay of Pigs Invasion

Monday Apr 17, 1961
The Bay of Pigs, Cuba

The CIA and the Democratic Revolutionary Front had based a 1,400-strong army, Brigade 2506, in Nicaragua. On the night of 16 to 17 April, Brigade 2506 landed along Cuba's Bay of Pigs and engaged in a firefight with a local revolutionary militia .


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