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...Nazis had taken this island rampart of the Balkans in twelve nightmarish days of 1941. Now the Greeks and British pounded the power station at Malemi, where the Nazi padded paratroopers had dropped two years ago. They ripped the radio post at Selino Kastelli, not far from the beach where a German seaborne remnant came through British naval guns. They strafed the roads behind Candia, where exhausted Allied foot soldiers had retreated...
Grenade. Second Lieutenant Charles Hazlett Upham, 33-year-old Rugby player and shepherd, destroyed three German posts at Malemi. Later he took a corporal reconnoitering 600 yards into enemy territory; together they killed two Germans, led out an isolated company that had been cut off. He was wounded in the shoulder and foot, and next day advanced alone in another attack. Two Germans fired at him. One arm was useless, so he propped his rifle in a tree, picked off the two Germans who had shot...
...Malemi in Crete, where he was stationed, "we were rarely in a position to put more than two aircraft into the air for a continuous patrol during daylight hours." The anti-aircraft guns protecting the airport were without protection themselves, were quickly put out of action by Stukas...
...fought in Greece blamed the defeat there, now obtained in Crete: there were no defending R.A.F. planes to be seen. And on Wednesday and Thursday, although "Tiny" Freyberg said his men were "fighting with splendid courage," they lost the island's three key points: Candia, Rethymno, Canea (including Malemi Airfield...
...Command, generally cautious in announcing successes on land, said at week's end: "The western portion of the island . . . is securely in German hands." This week German tanks, possibly airborne but probably also seaborne, appeared in action, and the British admitted that the Germans had broken out from Malemi...