Cuban Exiles - What Happened to the Cubans?

The first ships carrying exiles left for Cuba on April 11th and the last left on April 13th with a planned arrival date of April 17th. The Cuban exile pilots would fly B-26 bombers and destroy the Cuban Air Force in a first wave, and then they would come back to inflict further damage with the brigade landing. At six o'clock in the morning on April 15th, Fidel Castro saw B-26 with Cuban markings fly over his head at an airbase near Havana before hearing explosions of bombs and aircraft guns.