The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961. The Americans barely supported the Bay of Pigs invasion and despite it's failure. They went to swampy area on the southern coast of Cuba on a night landing might bring a force ashore against little resistance and help to hide any U.S. involvement to help the Bay of Pigs to win the war. Unfortunately the landing site also left the invading force more than 80 miles from refuge in Cuba's Escambray Mountains, if anything went wrong.
The original invasion plan called for two air strikes against Cuban air bases. A 1,400 men invasion force would go under cover in the darkness underground and they will launch a surprise attack underground. The United Revolutionary Front will send leaders from South Florida to help and establish a provisional government for the Bay of Pigs. The CIA had used World War II B-26 bombers and painted them to look like Cuban air force planes. The bombers missed many of their targets and left most of Castro's air force connected.
As news broke of the attack photos of the repainted U.S. planes became public and revealed American support for the invasion. President Kennedy cancelled a second air strike. On April 17, the Cuban exile invasion force known as Brigade 2506 landed at some of the beaches along the Bay of Pigs and immediately came under fire. Cuban planes strafed the invaders sank two escort ships and destroyed half of the exile's air support.
My thoughts.. It's sad that the Bay of Pigs failed. Many of the soldiers died because of th5tf;ois war. I am glad they were trying to win the war but it was hard for them. They did'nt do a great battle between Cuba.
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What caused the Bay of Pigs to fail?
Who started this war?
What if you were apart of this war, how will you feel about it?
Was the Bay of Pigs successful of this war?
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Many people died in this war, it was a war between Cuba and America. I would be very scared if I was in this was, as well as terrified for my life and reputation. This attack was extremley unsuccessful, and was a huge fail for the United States of America.
Yeah, it is a very sad war at that time. It is a very upsetting that we had to deal with that.
It was an extremley sad time for our country, it was a huge defeat for the US. And definetly showed our weaker sides during the Cold War. Its sad it happened this way. But overall, we had the missiles removed eventualy so all worked out.
The invasion was poorly planned, with limited support from the local cuban population. It was started by the US in attempt to overthrow the cuban government led by fidel castro.
The US would indicate this attack but would end up losing terribly. If I was a part of this war I would not like the idea of communism I like having my own rights and being able to make my own independent decisions. Overall they would lose the invasion with little to no progress.
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