Luis Alfonso Silva Tablada. Biography. Fighting. Ranks. A photo.
In 1941 of Luis graduated school pilots. During the war, the Germans carried out several patrol flights in search of enemy submarines. After the military uprising against the government, he was arrested, but soon released. Then he met with the movement "26 of July" and joined him.
13.10.1958 Mr. flew from Miami to Cuba piloting a Cessna-180 with a cargo of weapons on board. It was intended for the second front Castro.
In his debut Luis military action was in November 1958, his task was a raid on an army camp in La Maya.
After the victory of the revolution he led a squadron of B-26. When the rebels began landing in the spring of 1961 Tablada participated in combat missions. Before he could run two sorties. In one attack in his knocked-26. With him died the whole crew.