Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threat was still not imminent in days, or possibly even in weeks. But there was another threat. On Crete, held out of the great Rommel circus in the desert, were 250,000 German airborne troops, carefully trained by the parachute-glider expert, Lieut. General Kurt Student, for a swift thrust. Egypt, the Levant, the fat oil fields of Iraq were within their range. The United Nations, recognizing the threat, poured planes and men up from Suez and Basra. The U.S. pulled its crack airman, Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton, out of India, put him in command of its Middle East...
...Airlines v. Air Freight. While his future enemies were debating how many angels with 60-lb. field packs could stand on the point of a pin, Hitler accumulated transports for Norway, Crete and Libya. Sixteen percent of the Luftwaffe consisted of transports...
...desperate as when the German charged into the El Alamein funnel. He was still there, he was always dangerous, he was nearly intact. Moreover, he had a card up his sleeve, and it was sticking halfway out of his green gabardine cuff: parachute and glider troops concentrated in Crete, ready to help him by an assault from the rear...
...touch of Tom Swift and His Wonderful Airship has crept into the shoptalk of Army airmen. As of Jan. 1, Army glider pilots, like Army gliders, were rare as four-leaf clovers. Few air experts knew what gliders could do (except for what they had read about Crete). As far as the U.S. public was concerned, gliding was still a game for a few nutty newsreel daredevils around Elmira...
...last year Fate brought Greece worse enemies than kings. The Goat knew they might even swarm over the sea to Crete, where weary-faced Greek and British soldiers were trying frantically to prepare for them. The Goat knew, too who the Man was that the English brought one night to his mountain cottage. Next morning he pointed down toward the valley; it had sprouted parachutes, brilliantly red, green and white. The English said they must take the Man at once to a secret rendezvous where a warship was expected. So the Goat guided them over crooked goat tracks only...