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Italy United Kingdom Aviation Support: South Africa
Germany
Commanders and leaders
Felice Leggio L.R.F. Kenyon (POW)
F.W. Müller
Strength
ca. 3,500 Italians 1,388 British
4,000
Casualties and losses
3,145 Italians & 1,388 British POWs 103 Italian officers executed
15 dead, 70 wounded
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Dodecanese campaign
Rhodes
Leros
Kos
Location of Kos in the Aegean Sea
The Battle of Kos (Greek: Μάχη της Κω) was a brief battle in World War II between British/Italian and German forces for control of the Greek island of Kos, in the then Italian-held Dodecanese Islands of the Aegean Sea. The battle was precipitated by the Allied Armistice with Italy. German forces with strong air support quickly overwhelmed the Italian garrison and the recent British reinforcements, denying the Allies a base to attack the German presence in the Balkans and leading to the expulsion and death of the island's Jewish population.
The BattleofKos (Greek: Μάχη της Κω) was a brief battle in World War II between British/Italian and German forces for control of the Greek island of Kos...
Kos or Cos (/kɒs, kɔːs/; Greek: Κως [kos]) is a Greek island, which is part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Kos is the third...
invasion of the island (known as the BattleofKos, part of the Dodecanese campaign). Kos was occupied by Italy since the Italo-Turkish War of 1912, which...
the British pressed ahead with the occupation of the other islands, especially the three larger ones ofKos, Samos, and Leros. The Germans were known to...
however, place the battle around 255 BC, at the time of the Second Syrian War. The Chremonidean War and the BattleofKos marked the end of absolute Ptolemaic...
part of the Xeno franchise. Concluding the narrative of Xenosaga Episode I and Episode II, Episode III sees Shion Uzuki and the battle android KOS-MOS...
This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, other...
sea. Similar executions of officers also occurred in the aftermath of the BattleofKos, where between 96 and 103 Italian officers were shot along with their...
aftermath of the BattleofKos. Appalled, they then issued the Moscow Declaration on 31 October 1943, which laid out the criteria for the punishment of crimes...
Dodecanese and Cyclades groups of islands in the Dodecanese Campaign and took part in the Battleof Leros and the BattleofKos. They, with the Greek Sacred...
considered an example of "netroots" activism. Daily Kos was founded in 2002 by Markos Moulitsas and takes the name Kos from the last syllable of his first name...
Aegean; Antigonus Gonatas celebrated his victory at the naval battleofKos by dedicating one of his victorious ships to the shrine by 255–245 BC, displayed...
The Battles for Kos and Leros, 1943. The History Press. ISBN 9780750969581. Retrieved 20 February 2021. Antony Beevor (1991). Crete, The Battle and the...
left Earth, the plot follows Shion Uzuki, an employee of Vector Industries; and KOS-MOS, a battle android designed to fight the hostile alien Gnosis. Forced...
landing at the town of Termoli on the Adriatic coast of Italy. The BattleofKos began for the island ofKos in the Aegean Sea. Nazi Wehrmacht forces committed...
Infantry Brigade. The battalion was lost in the Battleof Leros in September 1943 and the BattleofKos in October 1943 and had to be reformed later. The...
Kalymnos were withdrawn to Leros on 4 October after the Germans won the BattleofKos. German air assaults on Leros intensified during late October, and at...
island ofKos in the Aegean Sea at that time, but he soon arrived at Preveza with the rest of the Ottoman fleet, after capturing the island of Kefalonia...
The Battleof Cos was fought in c. 261 BC, or as late as 255 BC, between an Antigonid fleet and a Ptolemaic fleet. Antigonus II Gonatas led his forces...
powerful KOS-MOS battle androids. There also exist more advanced AGWS models called E.S., powered by Lost Jerusalem artifacts called Vessels of Anima. A...
The Battleof Crete (German: Luftlandeschlacht um Kreta, Greek: Μάχη της Κρήτης), codenamed Operation Mercury (German: Unternehmen Merkur), was a major...