Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George's flight was by steamer, from the crowded, bomb-tangled port of Peirae-us. As he left, he released his heroic, echoing formula: ". . . hard destinies of war . . . lawful Government . . . continue the fight . . . resistance to the end. . . ." Then, by night, the steamer picked its way to Suda Bay, Crete, and King George, his brother and his Ministers proceeded to Candia, where the monarch called the first Cabinet meeting of Free Greece...
...Thursday some Italian cruisers were located at sea by our air reconnaissance, but we did not of course know precisely what game they were up to. It might have been an attack on Malta, an attack on our convoys, an attack on Crete, or one of several other possibilities...
...coming out (just as Nelson's frigates, whenever there were enough, scouted the French and Genoese ports) had reported a strong Italian force hard by Cape Passero, on the southeasternmost tip of Sicily, steaming east. British forces had immediately set out from Alexandria for Suda Bay, Crete...
Shortly after the Castellorizo raid, another force was said to have turned the same stunt on little Caso Island, in the Dodecanese near Crete...
...British promptly occupied the deep harbor of Suda Bay, Crete. This operating base and its affiliated airfields, plus the heroic Greek stand, altered the strategy of the Eastern Mediterranean and allowed the British to take relatively permanent initiative for the first time in the war. A battle fleet kept sweeping between and around Corinth and Brindisi. always in hope of coming up with an Italian force and having a good scrap. To match the Italians' potential fire power in this area, this force was brought to two battleships, at least four cruisers, one aircraft carrier, at least a flotilla...