Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Athens students demonstrated jubilantly, and there was so much popular unrest in Crete that the Nazi conquerors got out their machine guns...
...Allied bases along the North African coast will place Germany's advanced Mediterranean bases in Sardinia, Sicily and Crete in immediate danger. The Axis' entire Mediterranean coast line may soon be bombed and raided; almost certainly, it will eventually be invaded...
From afar the communication lines of both sides ran like threads of a web into the desert battlefield of Egypt. From Italy and Crete, Axis transports on the sea and in the air, plagued by Allied planes, tried to rush reinforcements and supplies. Across French Equatorial Africa tortuous lines fed aid to Montgomery; men of De Gaulle hacked new routes through the jungle. U.S. and British freighters rounded the Cape, climbed the side of East Africa and plowed into the Red Sea. The web covered half the world...
Aldridge has probably seen action with more armies on more fronts than any other correspondent in World War II. He has campaigned with the British, Australians, Finns, Norwegians, Greeks-in land, sea and air battles from Narvik to Crete-and so he knew what he was talking about when he cabled TIME that the Red soldiers are "actually better disciplined and more deadly serious about this war than the troops of any other nation-think, breathe, eat and sleep it-do not even enjoy a stay away from it. Their very camels seem to lean forward into the wind with...
Mare Nostrum is nobody's sea. Italy's ports of Naples, Messina, Taranto and Palermo and Italy's Navy serve the Germans, conveying war stuffs across the Mediterranean to North Africa (see map). German troops and fortifications guard Crete, the strongly defended shores of Greece and Yugoslavia on the Adriatic. The Germans have another strong point at Rhodes, lesser forces in the other Italian Dodecanese and the Greek islands just off Turkey. But the Mediterranean is not yet an Axis sea. The British and the Maltese still hold Malta (see cover); they still have Cyprus, Syria, Palestine...