When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian navy unable to guarantee control of the seas, Adolf Hitler turned to his ...
In May 1941, Nazi Germany launched its first major airborne invasion, targeting the strategic island of Crete. As thousands ...
Operation Mercury, the German airborne assault on the island of Crete in May 1941, was the first strategic use of airborne forces in history. The assault began on 20 May, with landings near the island ...
As winter fell over the Eastern Front, the elite paratroopers of the 7th Flieger Division were no longer sky-born shock troops, they were desperate infantry, freezing in trenches outside Leningrad. In ...
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