Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ninth and Tenth-in Syria, Palestine, Persia and Iraq. Fortnight ago troops on Cyprus,which has been built up into a formidable base, completed maneuvers, and the men were declared "ready to take the offensive." The Allies have had time to refurbish airfields in Cyrenaica, only 200 miles from Crete, a logical objective of Allied activity in the eastern Mediterranean and a. barrier to any invasion of the Balkans. For their part, the nervous Germans moved last-week into Italian Rhodes, on Crete's flank and only 100 miles away. Marshal Rommel was reported to have completed a tour...
Report from Crete. Off to a belated start in October 1941, the U.S. glider program was forced into being by public and military outcry after the German air conquest of Crete; British opinion also demanded a big glider force. Later reports on Crete cooled this enthusiasm so far as the military was concerned; it appeared that Nazi paratroops and transport planes had done the real damage while their gliders had suffered brutal losses (best estimate: 50%). U.S. officers now think the Germans misused their gliders, flying them directly onto British airfields and strong points instead of landing troops near...
...Schmeling, wounded as a Nazi paratrooper in Crete, was reported a Russian war prisoner, again wounded...
Palestine, Egypt, Tripoli. Last July, when Rommel was knocking at the Alexandria gate, the Bastards were sent to Palestine to help. They could take only twenty of their ground crew with them, never got any more. They bombed Bengasi, Crete, Tripoli, the Dodecanese Islands and Axis convoys in the Mediterranean. In November they moved to Egypt, helped the Eighth Army's offensive by blowing up Rommel's oil dumps and two tankers at Tobruk. Thereafter Rommel's supply of oil came only by air transport. The 513th hit Tobruk ("the milk run") nearly every morning. Their biggest...
...week did not mean that no more German planes would fly over Tunisia or that no more Allied men would be killed by German bombs. But it did mean a happy reversal of the refrain of France, Crete and Burma: "Where are our planes...