Cuban Military and Police
(1944-1958)

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Tabernilla and Batista at Camp Columbia, March 10, 1952
Batista at Camp Columbia, March 10, 1952





Coup d'Etat, March 10, 1952
M3 tank at the Presidential Palace, Coup d'Etat, March 10, 1952





 Generals Alberto del Rio Chaviano and Florentino Rossell Leyva, 1958 Gen. Alberto del Rio Chaviano and the armored train, Las Villas, 1958





Gen. Alberto del Rio Chaviano, Las Villas, 1958 Generals Florentino Rossell Leyva and Alberto del Rio Chaviano, 1958


     Conrado Carratalá leaves the University of 
     Havana on April 22, 1956, with captured
     weapons after a police raid.
     Police Chief Rafael Salas Caņizares holding
     seized hand grenades.

 




Police Chief Rafael Salas Caņizares
Rafael Salas Caņizares





Police Col. Esteban Ventura Novo
Col. Irenaldo Garcia Baez





Armed Forces pantheon built in 1942 were Moncada military were interred,
Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, Santiago de Cuba.
The pantheon was recycled by the Communists, who destroyed
all the military corpses and replaced them with their own soldiers.