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Beerli also stated: The one big concern that I remember we were preoccupied with,· but could do nothing about ••• we knew where their aircraft were and we had designed a number of mis- sions that had to be flown to knock these out. But we were concerned that maybe what they would do after the first mission was to take the [undamaged] ones and de- ploy them •.• especially, go into the Havana International Airport, and then we would have their aircraft mixed in with the airliners. That would really have given us a problem. 37/ The best available U-2 photography of the three Cuban airfields had been taken on 11 and 13 April 1961. - On 13 April, there were five B-26's and five F-47's or Sea Fury aircraft at Campo Libertad. At San Antonio de los Banos, on the same date, there were at least five B-26's, one T-33, and one F-47 or Sea Fury -- the PI readout, however, noted that haze and partial cloud cover had obscurred most of the San Antonio airfield. The Santiago airfield had been photographed on 11 April, and there were two B-26's, one T-33, and one derelict F-47 or Sea Fury aircraft identified on the photography. In addition to the aircraft at Libertad, at least 140 trucks and 130 pieces of artillery were identified on the infield between - 207 -