Leo Baker, Wade Gray, Pete Ray and Riley Shamburger, members of the 117th Reconnaissance Wing Alabama Air National Guard, ...

The 106th Air Refueling Squadron of the Alabama Air National Guard, in collaboration with the Southern Museum of Flight and ...

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A bit of history flew into Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport on Monday afternoon. A rare Douglas A-26 Invader landed at the airport ahead of Tuesday's commemoration of the Bay of Pigs ...

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Four decades after CIA-backed Cuban exiles landed at the Bay of Pigs, passions still run high among survivors of the abortive invasion. So high, in fact, that Bay of Pigs ...

The first word came from the UPI listening post in Miami. Unknown Speaker: "An invasion force landed in south central Cuba this morning, some 90 miles from Havana, and is fighting its way towards ...

Alabama celebrates their native sons who participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Today it feels like the whole world has been explored, but there are still a handful of places around the ...

24, 1963 (UPI)-President Kennedy said Thursday that the United States never planned to provide air cover for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.He also told a news conference that ...

Students in the Honors College are gaining a personal and historical understanding of the 1961 operation to liberate communist Cuba through a new course titled “The Secret War: Brigade 2506 and the ...

A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful. He proposed giving the State ...