Armando Alejandre Jr. Age: 45 
Date: 2/24/1996
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen by naturalization (Vietnam War Veteran)
OCCUPATION: Transit Planner with Dade County Department of Transportation
Residence: Miami, FL
LOCATION: International airspace over the straits of Florida
DESCRIPTION: Shot down by Cuban MIG jet fighters while piloting an unarmed civilian plane
in a humanitarian search and rescue mission for Brother To The Rescue.
SOURCE: Organization OF American States, 1997, Page 691.TOP
Carlos Costa AGE: 29 
DATE: 02/24/1996
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth, Born In Florida
OCCUPATION: Human Resources Administrator with Miami Dade International Airport
RESIDENCE: Miami, FL
LOCATION: International airspace over the straits of Florida
DESCRIPTION: Shot down by Cuban MIG Jet fighters while piloting an unarmed civilian plane
in a humanitarian search and rescue mission for Brothers To The Rescue.
SOURCE: Organization Of American States, 1997. Page 691.
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Mario De La Peña
Age: 24 
Date: 2/24/1996
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen by birth, born in New Jersey
OCCUPATION: Pilot intern with American airlines.
RESIDENCE: Miami, FL
LOCATION: International air space in the straits of Florida
DESCRIPTION: Shot down by Cuban MIG Jet, fighters while flying a humanitarian search and
rescue mission for Brothers To The Rescue.
SOURCE: Organization Of American States, 1997, Page 691.
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Rafael Del Pino Siero
Age: 51
Date:8/22/1977
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen by Naturalization (Veteran Of World War II)
RESIDENCE: Miami, Fl
LOCATION: Combinado Del Este prison in Havana
DESCRIPTION: Captured in 1959 when flying a plane to pickup Cuban military officers and
condemned to a 30 year sentence. Was assassinated in his punishment cell at Combinado Del
Este. Cuban Government claims he committed suicide by hanging from his cell with a
stocking, but foul play is suspected.
SOURCE: Szulc, 1986, Pages 173, 177, 366 - 387. Encinosa, 1994, Pages 336, 338.
Valladares, 1985, Pages 199 And 398. Beruvides, 1993, Page 187. Conk, Pages 181 - 182.
Cuban American National Foundation, The Quilt Of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994.
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Mike Rafferty
Age: N/A
Date: 11/12/1966
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth
OCCUPATION: Aircraft pilot
RESIDENCE: Florida, U.S.A.
LOCATION: Seas in the Florida straits
DESCRIPTION: Crashed in the sea in his B25 Aircraft after bombing the Cepero Bonilla
Refinery in Matanzas Bay.
SOURCE: Ros, 1998, Page 41.
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Rudolph Anderson Jr.
Age: N/A
Date: 10/27/1962
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth
OCCUPATION: U.S. Air Force Major
RESIDENCE: U.S.A.
LOCATION: Cuban airspace
DESCRIPTION: Shot down by a SAM missile while flying a U2 spy plane over Cuba during the
Cuban Missile Crisis.
SOURCE: Blight, Allyn and Welch, 1989' Pages 60, 68, 113 and 117. Blight, Allyn and Welch,
1995, Page 105. Beruvides, 1993, Page 88.
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Leo Francis Baker
Age: N/A
Date: 04/19/1961
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth
OCCUPATION: Flight navigator with the Alabama National Guard
RESIDENCE: U.S.A.
LOCATION: Cuban airspace over Bay of Pigs.
DESCRIPTION: Shot Dow in Capt. Ray's Airplane near Australia Sugar Mill.
SOURCE: Clark, 1990, Page 182. Lynch, 1998, Page 128. Ferrer, 1982, Pages 213, 215 and
216.
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Howard Anderson Age:
N/A
Date: 04/19/1961
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth
OCCUPATION: Business Executive
RESIDENCE: Havana
LOCATION: Pinar Del Rio
DESCRIPTION: Executed by firing squad. Accused of being a C.I.A agent, the contact between
the Bay of Pigs invaders and the anti - Castro Cuban resistance. His blood was extracted
from his body, without consent, previous to his execution. SOURCE: Beruvides, 1993 Page
88. Clark, 1990, Page 158. Encinosa, 1994, Page 95, Testimony Of Bonnie Anderson
(Daughter), El Nuevo Herald, 6 March 1989, Page 2C.
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Wade Carrol Gray Age:
N/A
Date: 4/19/1961
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth
OCCUPATION: Flight navigator with Alabama National Guard.
RESIDENCE: U.S.A.
LOCATION: Cuban airspace over Bay of Pigs.
DESCRIPTION: Shot down in Major Riley Shamburger's Plane.
SOURCE: Clark, 1990, Page 182. Lynch 1998, Page 128. Ferrer, 1982, Pages 213, 215 And 216.
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August K. Mcnair Age:
N/A
Date:4/10/1961
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth
OCCUPATION:
PLACE OF RESIDENCE: U.S.A.
LOCATION: Pinar Del Rio
DESCRIPTION: Radio telegraph operator landed in Pinar Del Rio with Marcial Bello to start
an anti - Castro guerrilla group and was captured. Executed by firing squad.
SOURCE: Beruvides, 1993, Page 143. Encinosa, 1994, Page 95. Cuba American National
Foundation, The Quilt Of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994.
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William Alexander
Morgan Age: N/A
Date: 3/12/1961
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth
OCCUPATION: Commandant In Castro's Rebel Army
RESIDENCE: Havana
LOCATION: La Cabaña Fortress In Havana
DESCRIPTION: Sentenced to death in an anti - Castro conspiracy. Executed by firing squad.
Received multiple coup de grace shots.
SOURCE: Franqui, 1988, Page 346. Ana Lazara Rodriguez, 1995, Page 128. Clark, 1990, Page
151. Beruvides, 1993, Page 149. Valladares, 1985, Page 27.
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William Horace Patten
Age: N/A
Date: 09/23/1961
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth (Born In California)
RESIDENCE: Camagüey, Cuba
LOCATION: Guanabaquilla Shooting Practice Field in Camagüey.
DESCRIPTION: Landed in Cuba to start a guerrilla movement and was captured. Executed by
firing squad.
SOURCE: Encinosa, 1994, Page 121. Beruvides, 1993, Page 154. Cuban American National
Foundation, The Quilt Of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994.
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Bill Patterson Age: N/A
Date: 6/3/1961
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth
RESIDENCE: U.S.A.
LOCATION: Sancti Spiritus, Las Villas Province
DESCRIPTION: Executed by firing squad.
SOURCE: Beruvides, 1993, Page 154. Cuban American National Foundation, The Quilt Of Fidel
Castro's Genocide, 1994.
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Thomas (Pete)
Willard Ray Age: 38
Date: 4/19/1961
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth
OCCUPATION: Air Force Captain with the Alabama National Guard
RESIDENCE: U.S.A.
LOCATION: Cuban airspace over The Bay of Pigs.
DESCRIPTION: The plane he was piloted was shot down near the Australia Sugar Mill and he
received an uncalled coup de grace shot in the back of his head.
SOURCE: Lynch, 1998, Page 128. Ferrer, 1982, Pages 213, 215 And 216. Clark, 1990, Page
182.
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Riley W. Shamberger
Age: N/A
Date: 4/1961
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth
OCCUPATION: Air Force Major with the Alabama National Guard
RESIDENCE: U.S.A.
LOCATION: Cuban air space over Bay of Pigs.
DESCRIPTION: Shot down while piloting a plane in support of the 2506 Brigade.
SOURCE: Ferrer, 1982, Pages 213, 215 And 216. Lynch, 1998, Page 128. Clark, 1990, Page
182.
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Robert Ellis Frost Age:
N/A
Date: 02/18/1960
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth.
RESIDENCE: U.S.A.
LOCATION: Perico, Matanzas
DESCRIPTION: Killed when shot down in a small plane by anti - aircraft fire.
SOURCE: Beruvides, 1993, Page 174. Cuban American National Foundation, The Quilt Of Fidel
Castro's Genocide, 1994.
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Robert Otis Fuller
Age: N/A
Date: 10/17/1960
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth
RESIDENCE: U.S.A.
LOCATION: San Juan Shooting Practice Field In Santiago de Cuba, Oriente
DESCRIPTION: Landed in Navas Bay, Oriente on 10/1960 to start an anti - Castro guerrilla
group. Was captured, tried by a revolutionary tribunal in Santiago on 10/17/1960 and
sentenced to death. Executed by firing squad.
SOURCE: Beruvides, 1993, Page 174. Cuban American National Foundation, The Quilt Of Fidel
Castro' S Genocide, 1994 .
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Allen Dale Thompson
Age: N/A
Date: 10/17/1960
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth
RESIDENCE: U.S.A.
LOCATION: San Juan Shooting Practice Field In Santiago de Cuba, Oriente Province
DESCRIPTION: Landed in Navas Bay, Oriente on 10/1960 to start an anti - Castro guerrilla
campaign. Was captured, tried by a Revolutionary Tribunal in Santiago de Cuba on
10/17/1961 and sentenced to death. Executed by firing squad.
SOURCE: Beruvides, 1993. Page 187.Ruiz, 1970, Page 316.
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Anthony Salvard Age:
N/A
Date: 10/13/1960
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen By Birth
OCCUPATION:
RESIDENCE: U.S.A.
LOCATION: Santiago de Cuba, Oriente Province
DESCRIPTION: Landed in Navas Bay, Oriente on 10/1960 with Armentino Feria to start a
guerrilla movement. Was captured and sentenced to death by a Revolutionary Tribunal.
Executed by firing squad.
SOURCE: Beruvides, 1993, Page 174. Cuban American National Foundation, The Quilt Of Fidel
Castro's Genocide, 1994.
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Jose Brion Age: N/A
Date: 8/27/1977
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: Spanish Citizen
OCCUPATION:
RESIDENCE: Havana
LOCATION: Santa Clara, Las Villas Province
DESCRIPTION: Executed by firing squad
SOURCE: Beruvides, 1993, Page 97. Cuban American National Foundation, The Quilt Of Fidel
Castro's Genocide, 1994.
NOTE: Conflicting Evidence. Eduardo De Juan, 1997, Page 279 Has Him Dying Of Untreated
Cancer At Combinado Del Este Prison In Havana On The Same Date Of Death.
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Manuel Vazquez (Alias
El Galleguito) Age: N/A
Date: 4/16/1963
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: Presumed Spanish Citizen
OCCUPATION:
RESIDENCE:
LOCATION: Santa Clara
DESCRIPTION: Executed by firing squad
SOURCE: Beruvides, 1993, Page 184. Cuban American National Foundation, The Quilt of Fidel
Castro's Genocide, L994.
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Jose Gonzalo Teja
(Alias Felo El Asturianito) Age: N/A
Date: 8/3/1963
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: Spanish Citizen
OCCUPATION:
RESIDENCE: Aguada De Pasajeros, Las Villas Province
LOCATION: Aguada De Pasajeros, Las Villas
DESCRIPTION: Anti - Castro Escambray guerrilla leader captured and executed by firing
squad.
SOURCE: Beruvides, 1993, Page 124. Encinosa, 1989, Page 147. Encinosa, 1994, Page 157.
Cuban American National Foundation, The Quilt Of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994.
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Jose Gonzalo Age: N/A
Date: 8/3/1963
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: Spanish Citizen Born In Asturias
OCCUPATION:
RESIDENCE: Trinidad, Las Villas Province
LOCATION: Escambray mountains, near Trinidad
DESCRIPTION: Traveled by mule to see his son, the guerrilla leader Felo, el Asturianito,
and was killed in combat during an ambush.
SOURCE: Beruvides, 1993, Page 124. Encinosa, 1994, Page 157. Encinosa, 1989, Page 147.
Cuban American National Foundation, The Quilt Of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994.
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Terence Stanley Childs
Age: N/A
DATE: 1/28/1961
CITIZENSHIP STATUS: British (U.K.) Citizen
RESIDENCE:
LOCATION: Combinado Del Este Prison in Havana
DESCRIPTION: Wrote a letter to Ex - Prime Minister Edward heath that was intercepted by
the prison authorities and was subjected to brutal beatings by prison guards Lieutenants
Sardinas and Caleada. Subjected to psychological pressures, his family pictures were taken
way from him and he committed suicide by hanging from his cell bars. SOURCE: Valladares,
1985, Page 408, Beruvides, 1993, Page 183.
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