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The Stuka Experiment over the Alt Maestrat

Vilar de Canes, L'Alt Maestrat, Castellón

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The Stuka Experiment over the Alt Maestrat

Historical milestone · Vilar de Canes, L'Alt Maestrat, Castellón

Image of Vilar de Canes, not of the place itself.

Three German aircraft tested in 1938 dive bombing with 500-kilo bombs on four demilitarized villages of the Alt Maestrat — Vilar de Canes, Albocàsser, Ares and Benassal; more than forty residents died.

25 de mayo de 1938

Photo: Juan Emilio Prades Bel (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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