Bay of Pigs

The American CIA fund the training of 1,500 anti Communist Cuban rebels to invade Cuba and began a counter revolution against the Government of Fidel Castro in 1961. The invasion is a fiasco, as the Cuban exiles are pinned down by the Cuban Army, President Kennedy refuses to allow American warships and planes use their powerful in support of the Cuban exiles, who are captured.

To be published on Saturday 9th December