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Beach at Playa Larga, Bay of Pigs

In the centre of the picture is the rusty wreck of an American landing vessel.

 

Playa Larga was one of the landing sites for seaborne forces of armed Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, an American CIA-sponsored attempt to overthrow the new government of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro in April 1961.

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Uploaded on December 19, 2011
Taken on November 11, 2011