Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany's defenses in southeastern Europe will be disrupted by the loss of the Italian Army. Italian troops, weak in battle, nevertheless do garrison duty in guerrilla-torn Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete. Algiers heard that Marshal Badoglio had ordered the withdrawal of 22 divisions from garrison duty. If this was true, the Germans will have to garrison these countries, or else abandon them. The German chances of holding the Balkans against their own heartened rebels, much less against invasion, will be lessened. Said A.P. Correspondent Wesley Gallagher, recently returned from Allied Headquarters in Algiers: "If Italy sues for peace...
...Hammon, whose appetite was for little babies, the reclining couch strategists of Carthago reasoned that the root of the failure lay in the refusal of the Hasdrubals, Hamilcars, Hannos and Himilcos to profit by the example of Daedalus. Imprisoned by Minos in the labyrinth in Crete, Daedalus had fixed wings to his shoulders with wax and flown to Sicily. Had the great Hannibal been home, instead of wandering about Italy hunting for legions to defeat, they assured one another, he would have known how to adapt the solo flight to military needs. He would have flown an army...
...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...
...east, British patrols made a night landing on Crete, destroyed planes and oil dumps, got a good look at the Axis defenses. A British broadcast had told the Cretans not to mistake this raid for invasion...
...seaborne Allied advance would need help from the west and south. Southern Greece, Crete and Rhodes could be swept by the Allied air forces from Sicily and the Italian boot and from Egyptian bases...