Cuban poster warning before invasion showing a soldier armed with an RPD Light machine gun. Date April 15 ? 19, 1961 Location Bay of Pigs, southern Cuba Result Decisive Communist victory Belligerents Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces Cuban exiles trained by the United States Commanders Fidel Castro Jos? Ram?n Fern?ndez Ernesto "Che" Guevara Francisco Ciutat de Miguel John F. Kennedy Grayston Lynch Pepe San Roman Erneido Oliva Strength Over 20,000 1,511 Cuban exiles 2 CIA agents Casualties and losses 1,600 to 5,000 killed[1] 115 killed 1,189 captured The 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempted invasion by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba, planned and funded by the United States, in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. This action accelerated a rapid deterioration in Cuban-American relations, which was further worsened by the Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The invasion is named after the Bay of Pigs, where the landing took place. It is known in Cuba as Invasi?n de Bah?a de Cochinos or Playa Gir?n.