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They [the anti-Castro flyers] did land_ an aircraft on the [Playa Giron] strip and try to do some controlling with their radio. We then tried to have other aircraft land, but the Cuban pilots' fuel control procedures ~ere bad and they had to turn back. 181 The only brigade aircraft that landed on the strip at Playa Giron was a C-46 on the morning of 0+2 bringing in some ammunition and taking off one'wounded man, l1atias Farias, a B-26 pilot who had been shot down on D-Day and survived a severe crash landing on the air strip at Playa Giron. During the second meeting of the Taylor Committee Col. Jack Hawkins also made an unfortunate and probably unthinking response which he would contradict subsequently. When he was asked to describe the plan of action once the invadin<;1 troops were on the beach, Hawkins said that at the sign of the slightest weakness on the part of Castro's militia the brigade would attempt to break out and head for Havana; but if the brigade met more resistance than anticipated, Hawkins 19/ said they would try to break out and head for the Escambray. At no point in the Zapata plan was it anticipated that this procedure would be followed. As Hawkins would correctly note in the subsequent discussions about.the relative merits of -Zapata and Trinidad there would be little, if any, opportunity for a breakout through the Zapata marshes to the Escambray, a distance of more than 50. miles--breakout for the Escambray would have been feasible only if the Trinidad plan had been accepted. .. I.; " ,I 33