On Edwin Kaiser and Related Topics

[Scott Kaiser]

The comment, "no air-support is given" meant U.S. military Skyhawks were not to get involved, this order was relayed a bit too late while the Skyhawks had already taken off. The difference between the time zones in Washington DC to the time zones in the gulf where the Essex docked was one hour, when the Skyhawks had taken off to defend the B-26 there were non to defend, all was lost, and the battle was over, Castro won, Kennedy accepted defeat which had haunted him all the days of his life.