Word: struma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most highly fortified and guarded pieces of real estate in Europe is a patch of ground where the borders of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece meet in the wild Belasica Mountains overlooking the Struma and Strumica river valleys, one of the historic invasion routes to the Aegean Sea. There, one sunlit morning last week, Greek Lieut. Vassili Arkoudas, on duty in the most forward of the Greek outposts, was startled by the sound of heavy antiaircraft fire...
...long thick trail of smoke and then fire break out," said Arkoudas. "The pilot was obviously trying to keep control, and I think he tried to make a wide sweeping turn, all the while losing altitude rapidly. I thought he was going to make it onto the Struma plain. He didn't. About 1,500 ft. off the ground the airplane disappeared in what looked like a big flash explosion, although I heard nothing. The next thing I saw was a mass of debris falling straight down." In that mass of debris died 57 people, passengers and crew...