Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many Junkers? The Luftwaffe was reported to have at least five thousand 528 and other transport planes at the war's start. But the Balkan campaign, Crete and the trans-Mediterranean supply of Rommel must have absorbed a big proportion of the available transports. The Germans in Tunisia now require many more for their prodigious air-supply operation via Sicily...
Hull: "Hungary is a small Balkan kingdom on the Danube...
...Namely: Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, recently put over all France, 66; Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, Prussian who helped conquer Poland, Paris, the North Caucasus, 61; Field Marshal Siegmund List, who led the Balkan campaign, 62; Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, who commands the northern front in Russia...
...North Africa (see p. 34), if followed by an invasion of Italy, would allow bombers to blast German war plants now out of reach of Britain-based planes. The arc of the Alps could be bypassed by land troops without danger of an Italian flank attack along the historic Balkan route to Germany's back door. Along part of that route Yugoslav partisans last week had a new fighting front...
Into the triangle of Sardinia, Sicily and Tunisia he poured air strength. Reports last week were that he already had 1,000 planes in the area. By stripping European, Russian, Balkan, Italian air forces to the minimum, he could put an estimated 3,000 planes into the area, possibly prevent the junction of Allied North African forces, win himself more time to bolster his defenses of southern Europe...