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they really weren't that successful, Crete was a 'Pyrrhic' victory that cost them a lot more in casualties than the allies, they were used in holland with similiar results in 1939. our paratroops in 1944 were used to hold a flank while the seabourne forces got established Good to hear you...

we shouldn't be worried that black and white photography has died because of this, it's alive and well, just being done differently for my part i've come through a learning curve with digital photography and i love the results, my new nikon still takes the old lenses and the results are...

It is a fantastic place, i find it very hard to explain it's magic (and i'm intriged by it's history) with reference to that web site link ' http://home.online.no/~vestil/crete/ ' i have been in touch with the owner regarding some pictures of tortured german soldiers (about halfway down the...

we usally spend around a month there every year generally on the south coast but we do travel around, with the intention of living there when it's possible when i looked at your pic at first, i thought i recognised that guy waving but i was wrong, that is pavlos veradakis ( good cretan...

interesting site, thanks i liked the now and then photos, here's a now pic for you, the bridge at tavronitis next to maleme airfield if you look at the stone pillars, you can still see the pock marks ffom the bullets and shrapnel

Hi Paddy i thought i had seen a similiar pic to your cretan one, what do you think about this one? [/IMG] i also thought that everyone might wish to read this from the official british report of the cretan resistance ( was his code name siphi?) i hope you enjoy meeting up with...

i'm still surprised at finding you on this forum myself! i can't add much more than i've said already, i wasn't involved myself but my friend was, so each evening we'd get a report of how they'd gone on and what problems they'd had and whether they'd solved them. the trek was difficult to...

after you wash it , don't stretch it back to shape, just let dry and hand-shape it that should handle your half size

i met them in the south of crete in late may!! :) and i saw the map and the letter of introduction from 'philedem'

these guys lived and fought in the mountains, the gestapo couldn't get up there. if the german amry tried to go in (up) in force, they slipped away the germans took their revenge by destroying villages and summary executions of civilians