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Re: "Bay of Pigs" Invaders

Posted by Joe Scheil on Mon Jun 09, 2003 08:24:02 AM

In reply top Re: "Bay of Pigs" Invaders posted by arjan on Mon Jun 09, 2003 04:56:57 AM

: 19 april, another b-26 shot down and the story of a young
: aviator frozen for 18 years, because the americans wouldn'
: t admit that they were involved, a dead american seems rea
: sonable proove,
:
: Anyway the wrechage is still ahore and some of it in a mus
: eum in cuba
:
The pilot killed was shot but Cuban forces on the ground I believe, and it was not really a priority of the administration to find out where the body was, or what became of it. The story was on the discovery channel a while back, when his family recieved his body back from the Cubans for burial in Alabama. The other Alabama AIr Guard A-26 pilot, Col. Joseph Shannon, is alive and well in Alabama, and attends Reno every year. He is a true American warrior in the classic sense, and is very quiet about his achievements. And he still flies occasionally!

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