Word: machineguns
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...pounded the center of town. Fifteen minutes passed in quiet, then three Junkers 52s arrived 10 continue the destruction and from then on the bombing grew in intensity. Seven thousand inhabitants and three thousand refugees were first stampeded by hand grenades and heavy bombs, driven below the ground by machinegun strafing, and then buried beneath the houses that were wrecked and burned by incendiary bombs. Many were killed in the fields or in the street leading down to Casa de Juntas. Sheep and cattle, as well as the humans who had brought them to market, were wiped out. The only...