Military obsequies
after the Moncada attack

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Parade ground obsequies for the 19 military dead. Military coffins placed between folding chairs.

 
 


Gen. Martín Díaz Tamayo pins the  Military Merit Medal
 on the flag-draped coffins.
Batista visited the Moncada on Aug. 2, 1953. Governor Waldo Perez Almaguer is at left, Col. Alberto del Rio Chaviano, right.




Batista pins the Cross of Honor on the Moncada regimental flag.

 
 


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.