Bay of Pigs
“Playa Girón, Cuba, April 17, 1961. CIA-trained Brigade 2506 men come ashore from landing craft under heavy fire. Foreground shows exiles wading in the surf with M1 Garands as a mortar round lands; midground reveals burning supply ships offshore and Cuban militia advancing through pines; the swampy Zapata coast steams under early-morning tropical sun.”