Captain Amado Cantillo at the memorial pillar

photograph · Preserving Florida

Captain Amado Cantillo sits on the polished black granite bench that rings the base of the memorial's granite pillar. He is an older man with white hair, in aviator sunglasses, a white polo shirt and dark trousers. A bronze plaque is fixed to the face of the pillar above him. The paving around the bench is laid in white and red brick; royal palms, a clipped hedge and airport buildings stand behind. — Captain Amado Cantillo at the central pillar of the Bay of Pigs Air Memorial, Miami Executive Airport.Preserving Florida. Photographer to be confirmed.

Description

Captain Amado Cantillo, president of the Cuban Pilots Association and founder of the Bay of Pigs Air Memorial, photographed on the granite bench at the foot of the memorial's central pillar. Three bronze plaques are visible on the pillar's faces; the largest lists the names of Brigade 2506. The white and red paving behind him is part of the Cuban flag laid into the ground across the site.

Catalogue entry

Title: Captain Amado Cantillo at the memorial pillar
Format: photograph
Date: 2025
Repository: Preserving Florida
Accession number: PF-BPAM-2025-01
File: JPEG, 394 KB
Rights: Rights not yet cleared. Contact Preserving Florida before reuse.
Transcript: None. The item carries no spoken or written text that has been transcribed.

In context

Bay of Pigs Air Memorial, 1961 — present