Warren A. Trest

Wings of Denial: The Alabama Air National Guard's Covert Role at the Bay of Pigs

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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… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Dodd, Don

ISBN: 978-1-58838-021-0
EAN: 9781588380210
Produktnummer: 23777125
Verlag: Newsouth Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Masse: H21.5 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.0 cm 222 g
Gewicht: 222

Über den Autor

Warren Trest is a former United States Air Force senior historian. A combat reporter, writer, and air power historian in the Korean, Vietnam, and Cold Wars, he has published numerous articles and authored and co-authored more than 50 histories and studies. His book Air Commando One was nominated for the Bancroft Prize for distinguished works in American history. Other recent works include Wings of Denial, Nobody But the People, and Once a Fighter Pilot, and the hard-boiled Jake Falcon mystery novels Missing in Paradise and Requiem for a Flower Child.