Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wehrmacht had troops for the Balkans, long driven by guerrillas and now likely to lose their Italian garrisons. Additional Germans moved in, to control, disarm and eventually to replace the Italians in Yugoslavia, Greece and the island of Crete (where, Cairo heard, Germans battled Italians last week. If anything, these movements probably meant that the Allies would find more determined opposition from the Germans than they would have found before the Italian defections...
...craggy hills of Crete this week there was fighting between German and Italian garrison troops. Warned by a special BBC broadcast that their hour had not yet come, Crete's guerrillas stayed out of the fight. But how they have prepared for their hour is reported in this dispatch from Cairo by TIME Correspondent Harry Zinder...
...Fortress Europe was already dead. According to Weltwoche, even before Mussolini quit, the Germans had abandoned any hope of holding all the shores and lands of Axis Europe. Instead, they planned to turn Norway, Denmark and Belgium in the north, France in the west, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria and Crete in the south into rear-guard battlefields. As in Sicily, limited German forces would fight for those lands-not to hold them indefinitely, but to make invasion as slow and expensive as possible for the Allies. Weltwoche said that the Germans hoped only to hold an inner citadel-Germany itself...
...eager edge of Greeks. For the first time the Royal Hellenic Air Force, built up in the Middle East, was taking part in a full-dress Allied attack on the Nazi-held homeland. Across the sun-flecked Mediterranean the light bombers and long-range fighters clove a path to Crete...
...savage, costly attack; 17 Allied planes did not return. It proved, as the July 4 Commando raid on the island had proved, that Crete is formidable. But the island will have to be reduced before any Allied thrust is made toward the Balkans. Now, perhaps, the preliminary softening-up is under...