Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rhodes and on Leros, Patmos, Kasos and the rest of the Dodecanese Islands there was hope. Since 1912 the patient sponge divers and herdsmen, the shipwrights and honey gatherers had watched their Italian masters strut in the bright Aegean sun. Since 1912 they had heard Vittorio Emanuele's ministers of state promise again & again to end the lawless stay and had seen those promises torn up. Greek in race, religion and language, they fought Italian efforts to Italianize them...
Order from Berchtesgaden. The Germans were in Sofia to bolster the Festung's uncertain Balkan battlement. Once the Allied invasion armies overran the Italian heel, they would stand 50 miles from the Balkans' Adriatic flank. Chafing Allied forces waited to spring from eastern Mediterranean shores into the Aegean. Inside the Balkan Peninsula 50,000,000 people, hopeful or frightened, stirred...
...arrival of additional Bulgarian occupation forces. French sources reported that the underground had called a general strike, unleashed a new wave of sabotage. From London came word that Allied staff officers had returned to Cairo from three audacious days of conference with underground leaders. But around the Aegean port of Salonika, key to the Vardar Valley route to Central Europe, the Germans were strongly entrenched...
...Anglo-American invasion of Europe seems imminent. Allied leaders have promised again & again a many-pronged assault. The invading columns could spring from British and Mediterranean bases anywhere along the 4,000-mile front between the Arctic Circle and the Aegean Sea. But only action will reveal whether the many prongs will move simultaneously or in progression...
...Allies have forces of unannounced size, composition and readiness in the eastern Mediterranean, at bases in Syria and Cyprus. One approach for these forces is through neutral Turkey to Bulgaria. Another, the only one open unless Turkey permits passage, is by sea and air to Crete, into the Aegean, and thence into Greece. In Greece begins the historic Vardar Valley route of invasion into inner Europe...