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Enrique Carreras Rolas Julio Casas Regueiro Jaime Gonzáles Grocier Rubén Martínez Puente Pedro J. Mendiondo Gómez
He is President of the Civil Corporation Corporacion Inc. Participates
in the burial of the remainders of the Che Guevara in Santa Clara.
When the coup d'etat of Fulgencio Batista in March of 1952, Enrique
Carreras is ascended to Captain Assistant of the General Stab Chief, the
Colonel Eulogio Cantillo that until that moment was the Army Aviacion Corp
Chieff. Then he passes to the aviacion again, and he is appointed
as leader of the Escuadron de Combate of F-47D Thunderbolts. He
participates in conspiracies against Batista, and in 1957 the lieutenant
Alvaro Prendes attracts it to the Movement 26 of July of Fidel Castro.
In September 5, 1957 is produced the revolt in Cienfuegos, and Carreras
as leader of the F-74D Squadron, sabotages the order of bombarding the
revolts sailors. By this accion Carreras is imprisoned, where remains until
the revolutionary triumph of January 1, 1959. The first one accion
upon leaving of the carcel went of participating in the investigations
for the judgment against the aviators of the Batista’s Air Force. He participates
in several purges to the personnel of the Air Force, separating of the
Corp the not revolutionary personel. Carreras is since the firsts
times one of the leaders of the Fuerza Aerea Revolucionaria (FAR). After
the flight of Diaz Lanz to USA, Carreras occupies the charge of Leader
of the Escuadrón de Persecución y Combate (Pursuit and Combat
Squadron). Carreras gave classes of flight to the Che Guevara and
to Raul Castro at the beginning of the revolution.
During the Bay of Pigs combats in April of 1961, the captain Carreras is one of the pilots of more important success. On April 17 he receives the personal order of Fidel Castro of attacking the ships that transport the invading troops, and with rockets of his Sea Fury, he sunk the Houston ship, that transporting important loads for the disembarked troops, which strike them harshly. He shoot down two B-26: the first one April 19 in his Sea Fury, and another B-26 April 19 in a T-33. In total does 7 missions, and he was the unical pilot that flew in the three combat airplanes types of the FAR: Sea Fury, B-26 and T-33. He was the first pilot in Cuba to flying the MiG-15
and MiG-19, and is appointed as Leader of
the first Escuadron de Cazas (Fighter Squadron) of MiG-15bis. When
the Missile Crisis in October of 1962, he represents the Air Force at the
leader of operations of the General Stab of the Armed Forces, the Major
Flavio Bravo. Carreras was later Military Attache in Peru, Mexico and Portugal,
went the leader of a delegation of the DAAFAR to Vietnam during the war
with USA. In 1976 the Major Carreras is designed leader of the Cuban
Aviation in Angola. In 1988 he stops flying (at the age of 65 years),
and in 1994 he is ascended to Division General. At present he lives
retired in Havana. He was condecorated with the holder of Hero of
the Republic of Cuba. Carreras published his memories in the book
“Por el dominio del aire” ("For the Air Control", 1995).
Today he is the head of the Headquarters and Vice-minister for the Rear, Substitute of the Minister. As responsible for the economical activity of the MINFAR, directs companies as the turistical company "Gaviota" (with his airliner Aerogaviota), and the Union of Military Enterprices. His brother Senen Casas Regueiro was too a FAR General, and Transportation Minister, before dies in 1996. The today Army Corp General Julio Casas Regueiro, was head of the Anti
Aircraft Defense and Revoliutionary Air Force (DAAFAR) during 8 years,
from 1980 to 1987 and in 1999-2000.
In October 19 of 1915, Jaime Gonzalez was commissioned with the degree
of Honorary Captain, and its aircraft Morane Saulnier
G, that previously was been property of Agustin Parla, become the
second Cuban military aircraft. In February of 1917 he performs flights
throwing propaganda against the rebelion of the "chambeloneros".
In 1920 Gonzales unite the western coasts with the orientals coast, in
its monoplane Bleriot, and joins with several cities by the air, being
these the first flights to the large of Cuba. This same year Jaime Gonzalez
made the first postal flight in Cuba. In July 4, 1920 Jaime
Gonzalez dies when crashed after take off from the farm “La Bien Aparecida”,
in Luyano, Havana, falling in the farm “La Fernanda”, by the bridge Alcoy.
This it was the first fatal accident of the Cuban Civil aviation. Today
its name carries the Cienfuegos airport.
 He
was born in August 13, 1945. To the revoliutionary triumph, he joins the
Youthful Patrols and later to the Young Rebels Association. In 1961 he
studies artillery, and during the Missile Crisis of 1962, he is incorporated
to a Popular Defense Batallion as company leader. He enters to the Revolutionaries
Armed Forces in 1963, to the Military School of San Julian. After graduating
he occupies different places in units of the Anti-Aircraft Defence and
Revolutionary Air Force (DAAFAR), until to be named its General Stab Chieff.
He complies mission in Angola, where is ascended to the degree of colonel.
By proposal of the Minister of the Revolutionaries Armed Forces, the State
Counsel of the Republica of Cuba have been conferred him, among others,
the Order by the Service to the Country, the medals “Ignacio Agramonte”
and Internacionalist Fighter. Graduate of the Hight Military Colleges.
At the end of the 2000 year he substitute to Ruben Martinez Puente as Leader
of the DAAFAR, with the degree of Colonel even. In January of 2001
he is ascended to Brigade General. |
Rogelio Acevedo González
Acevedo
born in 1941 in Caibarien, in the old province of Las Villas. After the
Castro’s landing in 1956, he participates in some revolutionary actions.
In 1957 with at the age of 16 years, he joins with the guerrilla, in a
unit under the command of the Che Guevara. In the actions of Pino del Agua
and the Jigue he foughts in the troops of Fidel already as lieutenant.
Acevedo participates in the invasion to the western fighting in the “Columna
invasora N°8 "Ciro Redondo" of the Che Guevara. He finishes the war
in 1959 as captain, and is sent to direct the military school "Camilo Cienfuegos".
In 1960 he is appointed as National Director of the new created National
Revolutionaries Militias (MNR), of contributing decisive in them you fight
by Bahia of Pigs. It occupies diverse charges in the Armed Forces, including
that head of the Political Direction of the FAR.
Carreras
was born in 1923. Her father was corporal of the Cuban Constitutional
Army and the mother home working. They has six children. Carreras grow
in Matanzas, where seeing the flying boats in the bay, and then he was
impassioned for the aviacion. He income to the Army by means of the
Emergency Military Service (SME). Already in the Army, he aspire
to a place of aviation cadet. He step all the tests and was accepted at
the end of 1942. Carreras finishes the studies March 25, 1944. "I
achieved my dreams" says. During the remainder of the Second
World War he patroled the Cuban water in search of Germans submarines.
He
was born in Santiago de Cuba on April 15, 1942, but was recorded in 1944
in Guantanamo, where course the studies of primary and secondary. He is
one of four brothers, two females and two males, the father was professional
member of the Socialist Party (Communist). Martinez works in diverse places,
and in 1958 he joins the guerrillas of the “II Front” of Raul Castro. In
1959, after the revolutionary triumph, he is sent to Mexico to pilot courses,
and in June of 1960 travels to Checozlovaquie to assimilate the MiG-15,
returning in 1962. He occupies diverse charges, as head of diverse
fighters units in Santa Clara and San Antonio de los Banos. In 1983 he
directs the Cuban aviacion in the combat by 
