2025
Captain Amado Cantillo at the memorial pillar
photograph · Preserving Florida
Image: Captain Amado Cantillo at the central pillar of the Bay of Pigs Air Memorial, Miami Executive Airport. Preserving Florida. Photographer to be confirmed. View photograph (JPEG, 394 KB)
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
- 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.
In context
Bay of Pigs Air Memorial, 1961 — present