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Black-and-white photo of armed soldiers escorting captured men with hands bound in front, during the Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961. Other soldiers follow in the background.
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U.S.-backed Cuban exiles captured during the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuba, 1961.
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