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3 unusual facts about Bay of Pigs


Bay of Pigs

:Distinguish from Pig's Bay, the site of a large Ministry of Defence site near Shoeburyness in Essex, England.

Roberto C. Heros

Dr. Heros was also a POW in the Bay of Pigs, where he participated as a paratrooper for the United States.

Shelby Brewer

He participated in Mercury astronaut recovery, the Bay of Pigs and Dominican Republic engagements.


Hooked on Monkey Fonics

Ultimately he convinces her to explore the world of public schooling, and she agrees to go to the South Park Bay of Pigs Memorial Dance with him.


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Alfredo Duran

In March 2001, Duran made a visit to the site of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, accompanied by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Richard N. Goodwin, Wayne S. Smith, Jean Kennedy Smith (sister of John F. Kennedy), and others.

Theodore Shackley

In 1970, after the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics' "Operation Eagle" busted a drug-running scheme, several of the Cuban-Americans involved in the Bay of Pigs Invasion came to work for Shackley and Donald Gregg in Vietnam, including Felix Rodriguez.

Victor Andres Triay

In 2001 he was awarded the Samuel Proctor History Prize by the Florida Historical Society for his book, Bay of Pigs: An Oral History of Brigade 2506.