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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.
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 GRE
These men are tired... really tired... everyone was by the time they had managed to board a ship leaving Greece. They're tired but not disorganized... note the rifles; ready for instant action against
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 E
ALEXANDRIA. THEY WERE TIRED MEN THAT CAME OFF THE DESTROYERS.. THEY SHOWED IT IN THEIR FACES.... TIRED BUT TOUGH, "GIVE US A FEW PLANES WAS HEARD ON EVERY SIDE AND WE'LL LICK THEM EVERY TIME." THEY ME
Anzacs evacuated from Crete arrived at Alexandria undaunted by Germany's mechanised might. All were confident that with adequate air support they could cope with German Land Forces. Tired by days of i
MILOS, GREECE. 1941-05-20 TO 1941-05-31. GERMAN PARATROOPS, LOADED WITH THEIR EQUIPMENT, READY TO BOARD A JUNKERS 52 TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT FOR THE AIRBORNE INVASION OF CRETE CAPTURED PHOTOGRAPH.
