Chief ERA William Fear was serving on cruiser HMS Gloucester during the Battle of Crete. On May 22 1941 the ship was attacked by numerous...

Wolfgang Graf von Blücher The Von Blücher brothers (German: Gebrüder von Blücher) were three German brothers and paratroopers of the...

The Germans execute a patriot on the beach of Rethymno because he defended his village. After the battle of Crete, paratroopers...

In 1941, Andriani Chalkiadaki, who lived in Rethymno, watched in horror as the all-armed German paratroopers fell in Crete. When the...

by, Nikos Giannopoulos historian. The first Greek paratrooper to fight the Germans as a secret agent. She enlisted in the commandos and...