Allied Aircraft Sink Sinfra, Killing 2,098 Italian POWs, October 19, 1943
The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Crete and sunk. Two thousand and ninety-eight Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
Date: October 19, 1943
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