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Photograph 007800 Second World War, 1939-1945SOUDA BAY ... CRETE. H.M.S. YORK AND AN OIL TANKER AT ANCHOR, BOTH BENT AND BULGED FROM GERMAN AIR ATTACKS. A SUNDERLAND FLYING BOAT IS LANDING BETWEEN THEM.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
SOUDA BAY ... CRETE. TROOPS EVACUATED FROM GREECE ARRIVING ON AN ARMED TRAWLER. A SUNDERLAND FLYING BOAT PATROLS THE SKIES.
SOUDA BAY ... CRETE. H.M.S. YORK AND AN OIL TANKER AT ANCHOR, BOTH BENT AND BULGED FROM GERMAN AIR ATTACKS. A SUNDERLAND FLYING BOAT IS LANDING BETWEEN THEM.

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. ON ARRIVAL AT CRETE AFTER EVACUATION FROM GREECE TROOPS PROCEEDED ACROSS THE FIELDS AWAY FROM THE HARBOUR, THE PLAYGROUND OF GERMAN DIVE BOMBERS.

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

FORCED BACK BY THE WEIGHT OF GERMAN ARMAMENTS AND OVERWHELMING AIR SUPERIORITY, AUSTRALIAN AND OTHER EMPIRE TROOPS EVACUATED GREECE WITH THEIR FIGHTING SPIRIT UNBROKEN. EVERY AVAILABLE BOAT WAS PRESSE
