| Biscari Massacre | |
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| Location | Biscari airfield, Santo Pietro, Sicily, Italy |
| Date | 14 July 1943 |
Attack type | Massacre |
| Deaths | 73 Axis prisoners of war (71 Italian, 2 German) |
| Perpetrators | Horace T. West (1st incident) Troops of U.S. 180th Infantry Regiment (2nd incident)
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The Biscari massacre was a war crime committed by members of the United States Army during World War II.[1][2] It refers to two incidents in which U.S. soldiers were involved in killing 71 unarmed Italian and 2 German prisoners-of-war at the Regia Aeronautica's 504 air base in Santo Pietro, a small village near Caltagirone, southern Sicily, Italy on 14 July 1943.