Word: peiraeus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next Big Offensive." The first word, early in the week, was that 40 British transports had arrived at Peiraeus, the port of Athens, and were unloading troops; that other transports were due at Salonika-only 60 miles from the nearest Germans in Bulgaria. Then came a far more solid hint. The Greeks announced that their destroyer Psara had sunk an Italian submarine as it attempted to attack a convoy on its way through the Aegean Sea: the convoy was presumablv British...
...Theodore Leslie Shear is glad that Italy did not make war on Greece any sooner. Professor of classical archeology at Princeton, Dr. Shear was in charge of a grandiose excavation project which has gone on at Athens for ten years. When bombs fell on Peiraeus and elsewhere around Athens, Dr. Shear shut up shop abruptly. But his work was nearly complete anyway...