Word: peloponnesus
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...months the Germans had been withdrawing their forces that dangled precariously through the Balkans into the Mediterranean islands. By this week the British, moving in after them from the south, had already recovered Greece's Peloponnesus, were working toward Corinth and Athens...
...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...
...Mediterranean, Jimmy Doolittle's newly formed Fifteenth U.S. Air Force got away with murder all the way from the Riviera to the Peloponnesus. To stop Doolittle, the Germans would have to drain fighters from northern airfields...
...flight from Corinth, through the Peloponnesus to a little fishing port where a British destroyer finally picked them up, was a nightmare. More than once St. John and his friends were nearly shot as parachutists because of their knapsacks. On the embarkation dock they watched hundreds of trucks being put out of commission. The drivers shot holes in the tires, raced the engines without oil or water so that they would be ruined...
...moment war might strike again, from the North Cape to the Peloponnesus...