Brothers to the Rescue (Hermanos al Rescate) memorial

Item Information

• Description
  This is a memorial in Hialeah Gardens, Florida commemorating four civilian pilots who were shot down and killed in international waters in the Florida Straits by the Cuban government on February 24, 1996. Brothers to the Rescue was a non-governmental organization that used small planes to search the Florida Straits looking for Cuban rafters and radioing their location to U.S. Coast Guard authorities. They are credited with saving thousands of lives.

• Item ID
  csmep03189
• Source Collection
  Caribbean Sea Migration Collection, 1959-2003
• Title
  Brothers to the Rescue (Hermanos al Rescate) memorial
• Provenance
  Received by the Rubenstein Library as a gift from Holly Ackerman in 2010
• Extent
  2 scans
• Date
  None
• Folder
  Photographs of monuments and protest movements related to sea migration, includes monuments in Lampedusa, Italy, and Miami, Florida.
• Box Number
  Box 3
• Type
  Image
  Still Image
  photographs
• Subject
  Alejandre, Armando
  Costa, Carlos
  Peña, Mario de la
  Morales, Pablo

• Copyright & Usage
  None