Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australian troops who fought in Greece and Crete were re-equipped for mountain fighting with the very things they lacked last time: mortars, pack artillery, mules...
Crimea is no Crete. It is three times as big as Crete. It is a peninsula, not an island. It is a center of trade, the linchpin of a whole sea, not just an olive grower's paradise. It boasts a great naval base, not just a great, bare bay. It has several bristling military airports, not just four improvised plane-patches. Its fortifications have been planned for years, not mere days...
...Germans dumped troops, weapons and supplies onto Crete in gliders and drove the British imperial troops from the island after a few days fighting. Their use in the Black Sea battle might indicate an attempt to invade the Crimea...
MOSCOW, Thursday--Russian naval planes have shot down 10 German airplanes and three gliders over the Black Sea, the high command reported today, revealing Germany's first use of gliders since the invasion of Crete...
...York Times, which labors scrupulously to satisfy Secretary Knox. It published a picture of a British sailor being invalided home (he came into New York Harbor aboard the Empress of Asia) and captioned it "a bearded British tar whose ship was sunk in the Battle of Crete. . . ." All readers who glanced at the nameband on the sailor's hat (see cut, p. 45) got the erroneous information that H.M.S. Warspite had been sunk in Crete...