In May 1941, Nazi Germany launched its first major airborne invasion, targeting the strategic island of Crete. As thousands ...
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Battle of Crete, 1941: The Allies strike back - Animated
As German paratroopers fought to secure a foothold on Crete, Allied forces launched urgent counterattacks to regain lost ground. Around the vital Maleme airfield, New Zealand and British units tried ...
Maleme airfield May 20,1941 Although the Fleet Air Arm airfield, with its aircraft and some of its FAA personnel, at Maleme,Crete had been turned over to the Royal Air Force on May 1,1941, the base ...
WW2 game Post Scriptum has a brand new map set in one of the lesser-known battlefields of the war: the island of Crete, which was the site of a heated showdown between Allied and Axis forces in May ...
New York: Osprey Bloomsbury, 2024. Pp. 368. Illus., maps, peronsae, table, notes, biblio., index. $30.000. ISBN: 1472864557 The Battle for Crete was Decided on a Little Hill In standard Osprey style, ...
The battle for Crete, 20 May to 1 June 1941, was an engagement in which New Zealand forces played a key role in the defence, and ultimately the loss, of the island. This article traces the methodology ...
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