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Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment

1917 CE · France, Europe · Disaster

Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment
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The Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment of December 12, 1917, was a railway accident involving a troop train carrying at least 1,000 French soldiers on their way home for leave from the Italian front in World War I.

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