While the Americans in Guantanamo Bay were given a chance to surrender. Batista and his army were not so lucky.
Cuban airbases found themselves under a sudden and ruthless assault as medium jet bombers launched from the German aircraft carriers, escorted by jet fighters, and dropped a pre-emptive attack on their fleet of aircraft that had yet to properly take to the skies.
All that was heard was the tearing of the sound barrier, followed by fire and fury that consumed the airstrips, and all the planes laid across them.
Hangers were vaporized in the blasts, their maintenance crews with them. While air traffic control towers and flak guns were annihilated before they could properly realize they were under attack.
The Germans struck from the air with the speed of lightning and disappeared all the same. In Havana, Batista and his leading generals were shocked at how quickly the Germans had completely annihilated their limited air force.
