A delegation from the Hellenic National Defence General Staff, led by Chief of Staff Air Marshal Konstantinos Bouzos, is ...
The Cretan Federation of Australia and New Zealand, alongside its member organisations, will lead nationwide commemorations ...
Captain (then Sergeant) Reg Saunders (centre) and troops on leave from New Guinea in 1943.(AWM 057894) In May 1941, 6,500 Australian troops took part in the desperate and ultimately doomed defence of ...
Joy Adams holding a picture of her late father Bertram "Snowy" Smith who fought in the Battle of Crete. Joy Adams will attend Mount Maunganui’s Battle of Crete memorial, honouring her father’s WWII ...
The Fortress of Bir Hakeim served as one of the most important strongholds of the Free French Army against General Erwin Rommel’s Panzerarmee Afrika. In May 1942 around 3700 soldiers of the 1st Free ...
Archive List > Books > Battle of Crete 1941 by Leonard Charles Eades If you look at a map you will see the island of Crete is a long strip of land lying across the... The bomb had burst as it entered ...
More than 50 British and Australian warships were caught up in the maelstrom of Crete. The following ships all lost men during the battle. Battleships Warspite (damaged) — 19 dead, 24 missing, 69 ...
«Στο Φεγγαρόλουστο Χωριό – Η Μάχη της Κρήτης» / ‘Into the Moonlight Village – The Battle of Crete’. This is the title of the bilingual in Greek and English collaboration of poetry and art. The painter ...