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13 Feb 2019 1:06 p.m. PST

….Escape from POW Train in Italy

"SIX YEARS AGO, MilitaryHistoryNow.com published an article about some of the deadliest friendly-fire disasters of the Second World War. In the piece, we included details of an accidental American air attack on 1,500 Allied POWs being held in Italy. Recently, the daughter of one prisoner who lived through the incident reached out to us with her father's remarkable tale of survival.

The events-in-question took place on Jan. 28, 1944 when a German army train loaded with captured GIs, British Tommies and South Africans was crossing a strategically vital railway bridge over the River Paglia near the town of Allerona…."
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