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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 2000
Page
8
A ship carrying 290 passengers to the Algeciras port collided off Tarifa in southern Spain killing five initially, with a later find of a woman's body. three children were among the dead.
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Sandra Fox, daughter of Lt John Fox, attended a memorial in Sommocolonia Tuscany for Buffalo Soldiers and all who died in the December 26 1944 battle. Veterans and locals laid a wreath at the fortress site as remnants of artillery fire mark the wartime defense.
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