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SOUDA BAY, CRETE. SOME SOLDIERS EVACUATED FROM GREECE LANDED WITH THEIR KITS. THEY WERE THE LUCKY ONES ... BUT THEY MOSTLY LANDED WITHOUT, KITS HAD BEEN ABANDONED ON THE FORCED MARCH TO THE POINT OF EMBARKATION.
FORCED BACK BY THE WEIGHT OF GERMAN ARMAMENTS AND OVERWHELMING AIR SUPERIORITY, AUSTRALIAN AND OTHER EMPIRE TROOPS EVACUATED GREECE WITH THEIR FIGHTING SPIRIT UNBROKEN. SOME AUSTRALIANS LANDED AT CRET
SOUDA BAY, CRETE. ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES EVACUATED FROM GREECE. LANCE CORPORAL R. WILLOTS GOT HIMSELF AND HIS KIT SAFELY AWAY FROM GREECE.
SOUDA BAY, CRETE. ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES EVACUATED FROM GREECE. LANCE CORPORAL R. WILLOTS GOT HIMSELF AND HIS KIT SAFELY AWAY FROM GREECE.
SOUDA BAY. CRETE. PART OF AN AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. HOSPITAL ARRIVE SAFELY IN CRETE AFTER EVACUATION FROM GREECE. THE WORST PART OF THEIR JOURNEY TO SAFETY IS SAFELY OVER. SOME OF THESE SISTERS WERE WOUN
SOUDA BAY ... CRETE. TROOPS EVACUATED FROM GREECE ARRIVING ON AN ARMED TRAWLER. A SUNDERLAND FLYING BOAT PATROLS THE SKIES.
SOUDA BAY ... CRETE. TRANSPORTS ARRIVED AT WIDELY SEPARATED PORTS, LOADED WITH TIRED MEN, BUT FOREVER GRATEFUL TO THE NAVY AND MERCHANTMEN, FOR THE SERVICE THEY DID THEM IN EVACUATING THEM FROM GREECE
