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Maleme Airport (Greek: Αεροδρόμιο Μάλεμε) is an airport situated at Maleme, Crete. It has two runways (13/31 and 03/21) with no lights. The airport has closed for commercial aviation, but the Chania Aeroclub continues to use it.[citation needed]
The airport operated until 1959 as the main public airport of Chania. As of 2012[update] the Hellenic Air Force makes limited use of the facility.[citation needed] It is used as a military airfield.[1]
Maleme Airport became a historic World War II site when many German parachutists and mountain troops landed there in May 1941 as part of the Battle of Crete.[2]
^"Do you know that there are six airfields in Crete?". TheNewCrete. 15 April 2021.
^Biank, Major Maria A. (2014-08-15). Battle Of Crete: Hitler's Airborne Gamble. Pickle Partners Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78289-321-9.
MalemeAirport (Greek: Αεροδρόμιο Μάλεμε) is an airport situated at Maleme, Crete. It has two runways (13/31 and 03/21) with no lights. The airport has...
Maleme (Greek: Μάλεμε) is a small village and military airport 16 km (9.9 mi) to the west of Chania, in north western Crete, Greece. It is located in Platanias...
The Battle of Maleme was one of three main battles that occurred in the Battle of Crete against the Fallschirmjäger, in the Nazi German Mediterranean campaign...
busiest airport in Greece. The focus on civil aviation for the west of Crete has not always been on the current location. It was the airport of Maleme that...
is home to several airports, both public and military. List of airports in Greece Wikimedia Commons has media related to Airports in Crete. Hellenic Civil...
for DSE's insurgency. In the summer of 1947 DSE raided and looted the MalemeAirport and motor depot at Chrysopigi. Its numbers swelled to approximately...
conditions for DSE's insurgency. In the summer of 1947 DSE raided the MalemeAirport, looting its warehouses and abducting 100 aircraftmen of the Royal Hellenic...
four airborne assaults on Crete that day, following German attacks against Maleme airfield and the main port of Chania in the west of Crete in the morning...
when the German Luftwaffe delivered Fallschirmjäger around the airfield at Maleme and the Chania area, at around 8:15 pm, by paradrop and gliders. Most of...
their airborne invasion. He escaped from the camp where he was held at MalemeAirport, with Michael Parish. After three months on the run in island, they...
of Thermopylae 1941 Battle of Crete (Operation Mercury) 1941 Battle of Maleme 1941 Battle of Rethymno 1941 Battle of Heraklion 1941 North African Campaign...
the south of the city. These elements bombarded the German forces in the Maleme airfield undetected, until they ran out of ammunition. George II of Greece...
board. 4 March Luftwaffe Ju 52/3m "1Z+FZ" crashed between Eleusis and Malemes, Greece for reasons unknown; all four on board were declared MIA. 25 March...
Battle of Crete to German forces and capture of the British air base at Maleme in 1941. This single action led then Prime Minister Winston Churchill to...
The June 1942 Crete airfield raids at Heraklion, Kasteli, Tympaki and Maleme significant damage was caused but of the attacking force at Heraklion only...
four destroyers under over of darkness past Antikythera island to bombard Maleme airfield. In the morning they were spotted at 07:55 hours m by more than...
supported by fire from C Trp. However, largescale parachute landings at Maleme had secured a bridgehead for the Germans, who steadily captured the rest...
aircraft carrier HMS Formidable and land-based Fleet Air Arm Swordfish from Maleme, Crete, damage the Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto and heavy cruiser...
squadron flew its first combat mission on 9 July 1943, with an attack on Maleme, Crete. It also flew missions to Sicily and other parts of Italy to support...
aerial victory over Crete on 26 May 1941. His 36th victory was claimed over Maleme against a Hurricane fighter. Actions over Crete ended for I.(J)/LG 2 on...
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