BAY OF PIGS
It was over in a day. Brigade 2506, a force of 1,400 Cuban expatriates, had failed miserably in its mission to wrest control of the island nation from the Marxist regime of Fidel Castro. Its 17 April 1961 landing at the Bay of Pigs on the southern shore of Cuba had been crushed by more than 20,000 government soldiers, while tactical support from its American sponsors was conspicuously absent.
