Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nazi airborne coups in Crete and the Low Countries opened many military eyes, and some of the U.S. Army's best brains, including Air Forces General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold and the late, great Ground Forces chief, Lieut. General Lesley J. ("Whitey") McNair, lent support and advice to the U.S. paratroop and glider program. That program really got rolling in 1942, with the setting up of two full airborne divisions...
...Switzerland booksellers announced a reduction in the price of German war books: From the Karawanken Mountains to Crete from $1.25 to 40?; In Defiance of All Powers (the German High Command's official treatise on Nazi military philosophy) from 65? to 30?; Breakthrough in the West and Victory Over France from...
...conference began. Churchill was speaking when the ELAS men turned up: Communist Party Secretary George Siantos, EAM Secretary-General Demetrios Partsalides, also a Communist, and ELAS General Emmanuel Mandakis, hero of Crete, who is suspected by the British of being a Communist. All wore British battledress, all were relieved of their pistols at the doors. Then the door was locked, the key handed to the ELAS...
Anchorites and Dynamite. Then, to augment the Jewish terrorists, there arrived a surprising ally-the Nazis. Three Luftwaffe officers parachuted by night, probably from Crete, into the stony wilderness west of the Jordan Valley. Their twofold mission: to hamper the British war effort, to discredit the Jewish cause. They were discovered a fortnight ago when Arab urchins reported that a low-flying plane had dropped a bag of British money. In a cave once frequented by medieval anchorites police arrested three husky Germans, confiscated their radio sets, machine guns, explosives, and 14 German-made maps of Palestine...
There were still an estimated five Nazi divisions in Greece, and the Nazis needed them. A British force of baby carriers and warships was blockading Crete. Allied planes bombed Salonika, port of entry for German refugees from the south, port of exit to the north. The Allied Italy-based Balkan Air Force helped Greek guerrillas, who claimed to have won most of the Peloponnesus and were even reported marching on Athens...