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World War II: RMS Lancastria...

event · 17 June 1940 · 85 years ago

World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster.

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