War, occupation, civil war · War and occupation
A soldier from Skafidaki falls on the Albanian front
13 December 1940 Proven
The Greek Army's roll of the dead of 1940–45 records Sokratis Papanastasopoulos, born in Skafidaki in 1916, killed at Golemi on the Albanian front on 13 December 1940.
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- Skafidaki
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- War and occupation
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- ΓΕΣ/ΔΙΣ, Αγώνες και νεκροί του Ελληνικού Στρατού κατά τον Β΄ Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο (1940–45) Open (opens in a new tab)
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