Word: candia
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...Greeks and British pounded the power station at Malemi, where the Nazi padded paratroopers had dropped two years ago. They ripped the radio post at Selino Kastelli, not far from the beach where a German seaborne remnant came through British naval guns. They strafed the roads behind Candia, where exhausted Allied foot soldiers had retreated...
...three main towns of Crete were flattened, just as the center of Rotterdam was last May. Greek Premier Emmanuel Tsouderos said: "The principal towns-Canea, Candia and Rethymno-were literally plowed up by bombing, which was carried out with mathematical precision laterally and diagonally, so that eventually there was not one stone left standing...
...dawn, new waves of transport planes came in with more parachutists. This time the planes towed gliders, both aqua-gliders and land-skidders, in trains of from two to four apiece. The gliders cast off from their towing planes and swept down in the dim light, mostly in the Candia and Rethymno sectors. The aqua-gliders had outboard motors which propelled them to prearranged landings. When glidatroops disembarked they pointed their gliders toward objectives and rendezvous as indicators for later airborne forces...
...which all who fought in Greece blamed the defeat there, now obtained in Crete: there were no defending R.A.F. planes to be seen. And on Wednesday and Thursday, although "Tiny" Freyberg said his men were "fighting with splendid courage," they lost the island's three key points: Candia, Rethymno, Canea (including Malemi Airfield...
...whom had not long since put up a magnificent show in Greece-were equally magnificent in their tenacious defense of the island. They counterattacked time & again in the face of dive-bombing and increasing light-artillery fire, and at one time succeeded in driving the attackers from both Candia and Rethymno...