Word: castellorizo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month a small British naval force appeared off the barren, waterless, craggy, four-square-mile Italian rock of Castellorizo, near the Dodecanese Islands-two miles off the Turkish coast and 60 miles from Rhodes (where the Germans were this week reported to have sent Stuka dive-bombers). After brief opposition, the British forced a landing and took the islet...
Shortly after the Castellorizo raid, another force was said to have turned the same stunt on little Caso Island, in the Dodecanese near Crete...
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