Operation Lustre was an action during the Second World War: the movement of British and other Allied troops (Australian, New Zealand and Polish) from Egypt to Greece in March and April 1941, in response to the failed Italian invasion and the looming threat of German intervention.
OperationLustre was an action during the Second World War: the movement of British and other Allied troops (Australian, New Zealand and Polish) from Egypt...
a patrol boat during World War II OperationLustre, an Allied action in Greece in 1941 during World War II Lustre (treaty), a secret treaty between France...
Many experienced British units had been transferred to Greece in OperationLustre and others to Egypt to refit. Some commanders appointed by Wavell to...
the diversion in March 1941 of the best-equipped units to conduct OperationLustre for the Battle of Greece. Reinforcements were rushed to Libya to defend...
mobilised and took up positions along the Greek frontier. On 2 March, OperationLustre—the transportation of troops and equipment to Greece—began and 26 troopships...
World War II, the Australian I Corps HQ moved to Greece in March 1941 (OperationLustre). As the corps also controlled the New Zealand 2nd Division (along...
Μάχη της Κρήτης), codenamed Operation Mercury (German: Unternehmen Merkur), was a major Axis airborne and amphibious operation during World War II to capture...
France, the drive towards Leningrad and the fighting in Kuban during Operation Barbarossa. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 13...
Division and the 6th Australian Division when they were sent to Greece in OperationLustre. The 7th Armoured Division, with virtually no serviceable tanks left...
reversed. The best-equipped units in XIII Corps went to Greece as part of OperationLustre in the Battle of Greece. Adolf Hitler responded to the Italian disaster...
Operation Albumen was the name given to British Commando raids in June 1942 on German airfields in the Axis-occupied Greek island of Crete, to prevent...
redeployed most troops to Greece in OperationLustre, leaving a weak force garrisoning the gains made from Operation Compass. In March, the Battle of Kufra...
Colonel Dimitrios Psarros. The Greek landscape was favourable to guerrilla operations, and by 1943, the Axis forces and their collaborators were in control...
Operation Plunder was a military operation to cross the Rhine on the night of 23 March 1945, launched by the 21st Army Group under Field Marshal Bernard...
(Operation Kalavryta), intending to encircle Greek Resistance guerrilla fighters in the mountainous area surrounding Kalavryta. During the operation,...
Bogarde. Leigh Fermor's own account Abducting A General – The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete appeared in October 2014. During periods of leave, Leigh...
British attempt to contest Italian control of the Dodecanese, codenamed Operation Abstention, was thwarted in February 1941, when Italian forces recaptured...
Penguin Books, 1992. Fermor, Patrick Leigh. Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete, John Murray Ltd, 2014. Forkmann, Daniela and Schlieben...
After Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union with the initiation of Operation Barbarossa (June 22, 1941) — with most of Greece having fallen under Axis...
area of operations of the EDES andartes. Supported by British parachute drops, EDES quickly gathered some 100 fighters. The first major operation of EDES...
on the other hand to undertake certain operations against the Germans, including a number of sabotage operations. Following German atrocities, well over...
pharmacist. With the beginning of World War II, Grivas was transferred to the operations department of the central headquarters of the Hellenic Army, working on...
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