Word: leskovik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said that Greece had never had a 65-mm. gun, such as the rebels were using. Rebel prisoners admitted that they had moved freely back & forth across the Albanian frontier. Greek Spitfire pilots said they saw a column of trucks moving toward the border from the Albanian town of Leskovik. But the "Greek Situation" would not be resolved by U.N. commissions. The key was in Washington...
...southernmost Albania, also, the tide of battle was at flood for Greece. One Greek column, piercing through from Konitza, swept up the road from Leskovik toward Corizza, mopping up. Another pressed west along the Voiussa River, aiming at Tepeleni. Two other columns swept down the Dhrino Valley toward Argirocastro ("Silver Fort") and over the mountains toward Porto Edda. One more Greek column pushed up across the Kalamas River out of Epirus, driving the last invader from Greek soil and threatening to wipe him out of southern Albania as well. With the Italians in retreat everywhere, the ultimate object...
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