Word: ioannina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many who did fight were captured and are in government prisons. In an old Turkish jail at Ioannina there are 300 such captives. I spoke to some of them who had belonged to the guerrillas' crack Ypsilanti Brigade. One, an 18-year-old officer, trained in Bulgaria, said he was told by the Communists that the U.S. wanted Greece for a colony. 'Sometimes when losses were heavy,' he said, 'we wondered if perhaps we had made a mistake...
...mission accomplished, Bigart was given a guerrilla guard for the 50-hour walk to government territory near Ioannina. There U.S. officers put him on the plane for Athens, where he cabled the Trib. It cabled back: "Thank God you're alive and please take all precautions, including a bodyguard." The Trib did not have to worry. The Greek government put a guard on Bigart-to keep him from slipping away again-until he left for Rome...
Konitsa would be an easy job, the captain assured his squad. "He told us our government would be set up and we would push on to Ioannina. There we would find the Anglo-American commission. We were to take them prisoner, tie them up, and take their clothes away," Dimitri explained. The "Anglo-American commission" seemed to mean the field team from the U.N. Balkan committee...
...Konitsa was completely encircled while hundreds of shells crashed into the town from the guerrillas' 66-mm. guns. Wounded several times, Konstantin Dovas, the Konitsa garrison commander, directed the defense from a hospital bed. At week's end government reinforcements were pouring up the road from Ioannina and half a dozen Communist roadblocks had been broken...
...cleared about a third of Athens. But from Epirus in the northwest came a sudden yelp of alarm. General Napoleon Zervas, barrel-chested commander of the pro-Government EDES guerrillas, protested that ELAS forces had overrun eight villages in his territory. Next day he abandoned his headquarters at Ioannina...