Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CAIRO--RAF fighter planes shot down or damaged 30 Axis raiders over Malta Sunday and American heavy bombers blasted an enemy convey south of Crete as the Germans, stalled in Russia, showed signs of shifting their weight across the Mediterranean for a possible winter campaign in Africa...
...story of Squadron 80, a group of British pilots who flew up from Egypt to help the Greeks against the Italians and Germans. It is also the love story of Flying Officer John Quayle and the Greek girl he married in the welter of the British retreat to Crete. But above all it is the story of the planes, the mechanical heroes of Squadron...
...Germans have a third approach, one that may be the most dangerous of all, if Egypt falls and the Nazis control the inner Mediterranean. The man waiting on that approach is the Luftwaffe's General Alexander Löhr, commander of all German forces in the Balkans, Crete and the Aegean Islands. A solely airborne thrust from Crete to the British island of Cyprus and on to the Syrian mainland would be difficult and costly, and it may be beyond the resources of the strained Luftwaffe (see p. 38). But General Löhr will be in a better...
They pounded his supply lines, even sent planes over the Mediterranean toward Crete and Sicily to attack ships moving in slow convoys with new supplies for Rommel's reserves. Sunk within four days were three Axis tankers, two freighters laden with motor vehicles, one destroyer...
...scarcely possible that the Eighth Army had received anything like the reinforcement that Rommel had got over shorter supply lines which the British had been unable to sever. To Rommel from Crete had flown a complete German infantry division - the 146th. From Italy, a full infantry division. Also reported in the desert were German and Italian parachute troops, and on hand were two veteran Panzer divisions and Rommel's tough, veteran 19th light motorized infantry division. One estimate of his strength: 125,000 to 140,000 men, rested and equipped...